nine o'clock precisely
`` As you are all right again it can do you no harm , it will even enliven you . The best thing will be for Don Vigilio to come for you at nine o'clock and accompany you . Wait for him here . '' Pierre had just washed and put on the new cassock he had brought with him , when , at nine o'clock precisely , he heard a discreet knock at his door . A little priest came in , a man scarcely thirty years of age , but thin and debile of build , with a long , seared , saffron-coloured face . For two years past attacks of fever , coming on every day at the same hour , had been consuming him . Nevertheless , whenever he forgot to control the black eyes which lighted his yellow face , they shone out ardently with the glow of his fiery soul .