about midnight
My little horse came now and lay down on the ground beside the forge ; I was not quite deserted . I again ate some of the coarse food , and drank plentifully of the water which I had fetched in the morning . I then put fresh fuel on the fire , and sat for a long time looking on the blaze ; I then went into my tent . I awoke , on my own calculation , about midnight -- it was pitch dark , and there was much fear upon me . Two mornings after the period to which I have brought the reader in the preceding chapter , I sat by my fire at the bottom of the dingle ; I had just breakfasted , and had finished the last morsel of food which I had brought with me to that solitude . ` What shall I now do ? ' said I to myself ; ` shall I continue here , or decamp ?