two o’clock in the afternoon
I am in hell , and I must stay there . Believe everything that you hear said of the world , nothing is too impossibly bad . No Juvenal could paint the horrors hidden away under the covering of gems and gold . '' At two o'clock in the afternoon Bianchon came to wake Rastignac , and begged him to take charge of Goriot , who had grown worse as the day wore on . The medical student was obliged to go out . `` Poor old man , he has not two days to live , maybe not many hours , '' he said ; `` but we must do our utmost , all the same , to fight the disease . It will be a very troublesome case , and we shall want money .