Crossword-Solution: NOCHE 5 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Athelny was not displeased to find someone to whom he could read the translations with which for some time he had amused his leisure; and in his fine, vibrating voice he recited the canticle of the Soul and Christ her lover, the lovely poem which begins with the words en una noche oscura, and the noche serena of Fray Luis de Leon.

Soon tidings reached me that a great force of Tlascalan and other Indians were being collected to put an end to us, root and branch, and that with them marched more than a hundred Spaniards, the expedition being under the command of none other than the Captain Bernal Diaz, that same soldier whom I had spared in the slaughter of the _noche triste_, and whose sword to this day hung at my side.

Also I was a ruined man, no longer to be feared, the part that I had played in the _noche triste_ and in the defence of the city was forgotten, and the tale of my sorrows won me pity even from the Spaniards.

The cluster of _flor de noche buena_ blazed in great masses before the open glass doors of the reception rooms.

Only think of it, Milly; he actually proposed to me to walk in the garden with him! Good night, or, as my ancestors--don't forget, MY ANCESTORS--used to say: 'Buena noche--hasta manana!'" She lingered over the Spanish syllables with an imitation of Dona Anna's lisp, and with another smile, but more faint and more ghostlike than before; vanished with her companion.