

"As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house."

Linton: you knew it a while since.' 'Myself!' she gasped, 'and the clock is striking twelve! It's true, then! that's dreadful!'įrancisco. I took her hand in mine, and bid her be composed for a succession of shudders convulsed her frame, and she would keep straining her gaze towards the glass. :We had a midnight lunch too after all the jollification and when we sallied forth it was blue o'clock the morning after the night before" that indicate it's around 0000h., the switching hour.Ĭartridges not allowed after 0000h., to encourage sleep.

Marcel can hear the horns and raised voices and U-turn squeals way down below on Wash. It is midnight some one has turned out the gas the last servant has gone to bed, and he must lie all night in agony with no one to bring him any help. The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. He is certain he heard footsteps: they come nearer, and then die away.
