midnight
Come upon her unprepared , would they ? Ha ! ha ! She laughed scornfully and tossed her head of midnight hair as she pictured the duke 's rage at finding he had been foiled again , and by a mere slip of a girl ! This was a good game and exciting , too . Fetch Pa Briskow along , indeed ! Why , these wild mountain folk would kill him ; in their present mood they would rend a stranger hip from thigh .