midnight
He could see down below , in the little lonesome cove , the cottage where Dorcas had now made her nest with that `` darned gayte long-legged ` Miah '' for her husband , and in the sudden heat and bitterness of his wrath his heart became like a live coal within him . `` I 'll have my revenge on un , ef I haang for it ! '' growled he . And then he remembered that up on yonder moors -- whose ferns and granite boulders he could see plainly in the moonlight -- there was a `` gashly owld fogou , '' -LSB- N -RSB- where , if a man went at midnight prepared to boldly summon Hate and to `` turn a stone '' -LSB- O -RSB- in her honour , his hatred would be accomplished for him `` as sure as death . '' `` An ' I 'll go there , ef I die for it ! '' said he grimly to himself . The village was asleep , and all its cottages were smokeless .