midnight
Why so anxious that I should not breathe the same air as yourself ? '' `` It matters not , '' replied Aram , with a deep and ghastly voice ; `` but when you are near me , I feel as if I were with the dead ; it is a spectre that I would exorcise in ridding me of your presence . Yet this is not what I now speak of . You are engaged , according to your own lips , in lawless and midnight schemes , in which you may , -LRB- and the tide of chances runs towards that bourne , -RRB- be seized by the hand of Justice . '' `` Ho , '' said Houseman , sullenly , `` and was it not for saying that you feared this , and its probable consequences , that you well-nigh stifled me , but now ? -- so truth may be said one moment with impunity , and the next at peril of life ! These are the subtleties of you wise schoolmen , I suppose .