one o'clock in the morning
As Hugo was fiercely prejudiced and densely stupid and reverent of the powers of his own intellect , to convince him was not easy . In fact , Davy did not begin to succeed until he began to suggest that whoever appeared before Judge Lansing the next morning in defense of free speech would be the Alliance and Democratic and Republican candidate for judge , and that if Hugo could n't see his way clear to appearing he might as well give up for the present his political ambitions . Hugo came round . Davy left him at one o'clock in the morning and went gloomily home . He had known what a prejudiced ass Galland was , how unfit he was for the office of judge ; but he had up to that time hidden the full truth from himself . Now , to hide it was impossible . Hugo had fully exposed himself in all his unfitness of the man of narrow upper class prejudices , the man of no instinct or enthusiasm for right , justice and liberty .