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"Midnight brought on the dusky hour,
Friendliest to sleep and silence."
Milton.
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The pall of darkness is spread over the face of Nature, and the bold outlines of the mountains are shrouded in its embrace. Under cover of the darkness, a cordon of vigilant and daring sentinels are closing in upon the castle and its carousing inmates.