midnight
All was in vain , though . I felt too late that love , not ambition , had urged me into the dangerous paths of insurrection and revolt . I could not forget you . Like a radiant star , you ever shone upon the midnight darkness of my soul . I must see you again , to obtain from your own lips my sentence of pardon or condemnation . I despised all danger , even the order of arrest issued against me , and obtained the Emperor 's leave to accompany his ambassador here . I came and suffered the severest mortification that a man can suffer .