midnight
Disease may relax the body and enervate the whole frame ; but thou art the disease of the soul , the fever of the brain . Misfortunes may be borne -- pain must be endured till it is cured -- but superstition such as _ this _ , is neither endurable nor curable . I am not yet completely cured of it , now that I have entered my sixtieth year . Were you to send me into an empty , dark church , at midnight , and through a surrounding churchyard , peopled with the bodies of the dead , I durst not go , though you gave me large sums of money . And is my judgment or reason in fault ? Not at all ; it is my feelings , my moral nature ; my very blood has got such a blue tinge that I verily believe it would look like the blue ink I am writing with , were it caught in a tea-cup ! Sir Walter Scott was bit , too , and so are nine-tenths of the _ living _ , though they wo n't allow it .