nearly three o'clock in the morning
It does not hurt me very much to see him with a bullet through his lungs or a sabre cut through the collar-bone down to the same part of his anatomy . But it does hurt me exceedingly to see honest Thomas die between the sheets -- the death of any common civilian beggar . Thomas is too good for that . It was nearly three o'clock in the morning when I rode into the palace square . All round I saw the sentinels , their bayonets gleaming in the moonlight . A man was walking backwards and forwards in the middle of the square by himself . When he heard me he came towards me .