midnight
`` Take in the studding-sails , Timmins , and furl top-gallant sails . The _ Zodiac _ can walk along fast enough without them , and we must not have the people roused out again , if we can help it . '' The order was obeyed with alacrity , and the brig was soon brought under the snug canvas she usually carried at night . `` I told ye , Bill , there was no manner nor use setting them studsails nor to ` gallant sails neither , '' said Jem Marlin , as , his watch on deck being over , he turned into his hammock at midnight . `` Lord bless ye , nothing could have made us run away from her if we 'd tried ever so much . But to my mind , it 's having that young lady aboard kept him off . Depend o n't there 's nothing like having a beautiful , virtuous young woman on your side , to keep Davy Jones and all his devils at long range .