midnight
`` Schopenhauer had just died , and it was arranged that we should watch , in turn , two by two , till morning . `` He was lying in a large apartment , very simple , vast , and gloomy . Two wax candles were burning on the bedside stand . `` It was midnight when I took up my task of watching along with one of our comrades . The two friends whom we replaced had left the apartment , and we came and sat down at the foot of the bed . `` The face was not changed . It was laughing .