midnight
Images never presented themselves as distinctly to those who could see as to the blind man in his darkness . If he was ever permitted to receive his sight , what a statue of the avenging goddess he could create from this greatest event in the history of his vision ! After this work -- of that he was sure -- he would no longer need the borrowed fame which , moreover , he rejected with honest indignation . It must be late , for Hermon felt the cool breeze , which in this region rose between midnight and sunrise , on his burned face and , shivering , drew his mantle closer round him . Yet it seemed impossible to return to the cabin ; the memory of Ledscha imploring vengeance , and the stern image of the avenging goddess in the cella of the little Temple of Nemesis , completely mastered him . In the close cabin these terrible visions , united with the fear of having reaped undeserved praise , would have crouched upon his breast like harpies and stifled or driven him mad . After what had happened , to number the swift granting of the insulted Biamite 's prayer among the freaks of chance was probably a more arbitrary and foolish proceeding than , with so many others , to recognise the incomprehensible power of Nemesis .