About five o’clock
Exclusively absorbed by one only being , the soul finally grasps the whole moral world which surrounds that being ; it sees clearly . A woman when she loves feels the same presentiments which disquiet her later when a mother . While the poor young woman listened to the confused voices coming from afar across an unknown space , a scene was really happening in the tavern of the Grand-I-Vert which threatened her husband 's life . About five o'clock that morning early risers had seen the gendarmerie of Soulanges on its way to Conches . The news circulated rapidly ; and those whom it chiefly interested were much surprised to learn from others , who lived on high ground , that a detachment commanded by the lieutenant of Ville-aux-Fayes had marched through the forest of Les Aigues . As it was a Monday , there were already good reasons why the peasants should be at the tavern ; but it was also the eve of the anniversary of the restoration of the Bourbons , and though the frequenters of Tonsard 's den had no need of that `` august cause '' -LRB- as they said in those days -RRB- to explain their presence at the Grand-I-Vert , they did not fail to make the most of it if the mere shadow of an official functionary appeared . Vaudoyer , Courtecuisse , Tonsard and his family , Godain , and an old vine-dresser named Laroche , were there early in the morning .