noon
This second day was more grievous , more intolerable even than the first . He walked from the cabin to the lime-kiln , and from the lime-kiln to the cabin twenty times . He went to Kennedy 's cabin , to try if he could kill time by subjecting himself to the brutality of the man or his wife ; but the door was locked or bolted , and there was apparently no one in it ; he clambered up the hill and then down again -- and again threw himself upon the walls of the lime-kiln , and looked upon the silver lake that lay beneath him . But the day would not pass -- it was not even yet noon -- he could see that the sun had yet a heavy space to cover before it would reach the middle of the skies . Oh heavens ! what should he do ? Should he sit there from day to day , when every hour seemed like an age of misery , waiting till he should be dragged out like a badger from its hole .