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"Alas! " said Hiya, "the sentiments which this person expressed with irreproachable honorableness, when the sun was high in the heavens and the probability of secretly leaving an undoubtedly well-appointed home was engagingly remote, seem to have an entirely different significance when recalled by night in a damp orchard, and on the eve of their fulfillment. " - The Wallet of Kai-Lung
And his short minute, after noon, is night. - Donne