nine o’clock
I do not like to have my habits disturbed . Nine o'clock or not at all , as you please . '' `` But I must be at the Assembly at nine , for the morning session . '' `` I am afraid , monsieur , you will have to kill me first , and I have a prejudice against being killed before nine o'clock . '' Now this was too complete a subversion of the usual procedure for M. de Chabrillane 's stomach . Here was a rustic deputy assuming with him precisely the tone of sinister mockery which his class usually dealt out to their victims of the Third Estate . And to heighten the irritation , Andre-Louis -- the actor , Scaramouche always -- produced his snuffbox , and proffered it with a steady hand to Le Chapelier before helping himself .