While untying the knot round the hook, it seemed to me that I repeatedly caught the beat of horses' feet galloping at some distance; but there were such a number of things to occupy my reflections that I hardly gave the circumstance a thought: though it was a strange sound, in that place, at two o'clock in the morning.

While untying it, I thought I caught the beat of horses' feet galloping at some distance; a strange sound at two o'clock in the morning.
