midnight
No , he did not sleep . But why should I not sleep ? '' and he felt the silence of the night press upon all his limbs like a weight . In the calm of the hard frost outside , the clear-cut strokes of the town clock counting off midnight penetrated the quietness of his suspended animation . Again he began to think . It was twenty-four hours since that man left his room . Razumov had a distinct feeling that Haldin in the fortress was sleeping that night .