about midnight
Tell him to be here -- to marry us -- '' And with this request the priest was forced to be content . `` May the Lord God be merciful to him ! '' he exclaimed fervently , as he turned away . Once again , about midnight , the wounded man roused up to say : `` The ceremony must be legal -- I want no lawsuits after . The girl must be protected . '' He was thinking of his brothers , of his own kind , rapacious and selfish . Every safeguard must be thrown around his sweetheart 's life .