midnight
It was one of those small tranquil shrines of Bacchus in which the god is worshipped perhaps with as constant a devotion , though with less noisy demonstrations of zeal than in his larger and more public temples . None absolutely of the lower orders were encouraged to come thither for oblivion . It had about it nothing inviting to the general eye . No gas illuminations proclaimed its midnight grandeur . No huge folding doors , one set here and another there , gave ingress and egress to a wretched crowd of poverty-stricken midnight revellers . No reiterated assertions in gaudy letters , each a foot long , as to the peculiar merits of the old tom or Hodge 's cream of the valley , seduced the thirsty traveller . The panelling over the window bore the simple announcement , in modest letters , of the name of the landlady , Mrs. Davis ; and the same name appeared with equal modesty on the one gas lamp opposite the door .