Early on the following morning the eager divine applied to his friend
Eccleston for another loan, assuring him it was the last; while from the
produce of the treasure he would be enabled to pay his former advances,
with a copious interest thereon. The needy expectant was loath to
furnish him with another supply, though in the end he was prevailed on
to borrow from his friends, at an exorbitant interest, for one day only.
This important preliminary being arranged, the night was anxiously
awaited, and though more than usually tardy in its approach, twilight at
length threw her mantle of grey over the world's cares and perplexities,
and night, that universal coverlet of all things, whether good or evil,
did wrap them gently about.
And a night of more loveliness and lustre never was unveiled to the eye
of mortals.
The stars were walking in brightness--so clear and sparkling that each
seemed a ray or an emblem of that ineffably glorious Beam whose
uncreated splendour no eye can see and live. Those bright clusters that
we now behold have been the same through all generations, and they have
seen "all things that are done under the sun.
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