midnight
Take off my clothes , reciting Aves and Paters the while , raising your soul to God in prayer , and carefully anoint my lips and eyes with this holy water ; begin with the face , and proceed successively to my limbs and the rest of my body ; my dear son , the power of God is so great that you must be astonished at nothing . '' Don Juan felt death so near , that he added in a terrible voice , `` Be careful not to drop the flask . '' Then he breathed his last gently in the arms of his son , and his son 's tears fell fast over his sardonic , haggard features . It was almost midnight when Don Felipe Belvidero laid his father 's body upon the table . He kissed the sinister brow and the gray hair ; then he put out the lamp . By the soft moonlight that lit strange gleams across the country without , Felipe could dimly see his father 's body , a vague white thing among the shadows . The dutiful son moistened a linen cloth with the liquid , and , absorbed in prayer , he anointed the revered face .