midnight
Tom mentioned the Salon as if the Salon were his pocket , and stated casually that there was work of his in the Luxembourg . Strange that the cosmopolitan quality of Tom 's reputation -- if , in comparison with Henry 's , it might be called a reputation at all -- roused the author 's envy ! He , too , wished to be famous in France , and to be at home in two capitals . Tom retired at what he considered an early hour -- namely , midnight -- the oceanic part of the journey having saddened him . Before they separated he borrowed a sovereign from Henry , and this simple monetary transaction had the singular effect of reducing Henry 's envy . The next morning Henry wished to begin a systematic course of the monuments of Paris and the artistic genius of the French nation . But Tom would not get up .