midnight
Let me stop an instant more , however , to recall , were it only to myself , that charming year while all was yet well . After the double had become a matter of course , for nearly twelve months before he undid me , what a year it was ! Full of active life , full of happy love , of the hardest work , of the sweetest sleep , and the fulfilment of so many of the fresh aspirations and dreams of boyhood ! Dennis went to every school-committee meeting , and sat through all those late wranglings which used to keep me up till midnight and awake till morning . He attended all the lectures to which foreign exiles sent me tickets begging me to come for the love of Heaven and of Bohemia . He accepted and used all the tickets for charity concerts which were sent to me . He appeared everywhere where it was specially desirable that `` our denomination , '' or `` our party , '' or `` our class , '' or `` our family , '' or `` our street , '' or `` our town , '' or `` our country , '' or `` our State , '' should be fully represented .