six in the morning
They told me you were gone to church , but I could hardly believe it ! Come home before the mob comes back . ' I asked anxiously for the Chancellor , and heard he had escaped into the Hotel de Luynes , which was three doors beyond ours . He had set out at six in the morning for the palace , it was believed to take orders for breaking up the Parliament . His daughter , thinking there might be danger , chose to go with him , and so did his brother the Bishop ; but the instant he was known to be entangled in the streets , the mob rose on him , the chains were put up , he had to leave his carriage and flee on foot to the Hotel de Luynes , where his brother-in-law lived . There the door was open , but no one was up but an old servant , and , in the utmost terror , the unhappy Chancellor rushed into a little wainscoted closet , where he shut himself up , confessing his sins to the Bishop , believing his last moments were come . In fact , the mob did search all over the hotel , some meaning to make him a hostage for Broussel , and others shouting that they would cut him to pieces to show what fate awaited the instruments of tyranny .