midnight
He is gone now . Will he come back after my Baptism ? No ; I shall go to him . ' This lasted till past midnight , when , as they were deliberating whether to send for Mr. Rugg , he fell soundly asleep , and awoke in the morning depressed , but composed and peaceful ; and this state of things continued . The encounter with his uncle , and the deliberate choice , had apparently given some shock to his nerves ; and whenever night recurred , there came two or three hours of misery , and apparently of temptation and terror . It took different forms . Sometimes it was half in sleep -- the acting over again of one or two horrible scenes that he had partly witnessed in the Southern States , when an emancipator had been hunted down , and the slaves who had listened to him savagely punished .