[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Storia do Mogor](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci) › [Storia do Mogor (Irvine)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine) › 338.3.3 # Storia do Mogor 338.3.3 Storia do Mogor (Irvine) 338.3.3 - **Language:** English ### [338.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3.3) It is well to take a little rest when one has been awake so much. But it hardly seemed worth while when the designs which they had discussed had made them forget the time, nor did they wait for the day to dawn to make a commencement. The reader must be told their progress in executing their plot—how they were not neglectful in perpetrating the evil deed that they had just agreed to. Thus, on the first of February, 1704, at half-past six in the evening, they communicated to the superior an order to start within three days for Pondicherry. God help us! Why could they not intimate the order before sunset, or leave it to be done the following day? Stupid doubt! Indiscreet question! For was it not as is usual in such cases? Who knows not that ill-will, wishing for greater security to inflict hurt, flees from the brightness of day and seeks the obscurity of night? To postpone the attempt until the next day would be to lose time. That is not right. 'We are Christians; we must also prove we are Catholics. To-morrow is the Day of Purification \[i.e., the 2nd of February\]. What we have to do is an evil thing, thus let it not wait for the morrow; now, now, and at night so much the better.' - [Previous: 338.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3.2) - [Next: 338.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3.4) - [Up: 338.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.manucci~en-irvine.338.3.3) · Pramāṇa