ten o’clock
Much pleased with her first successes , the pretty exile devoted herself to an occupation which must be attractive , -- witness the fanatics that it makes ; and the few persons who crossed the bridge could admire at all hours a charming naiad in a flounced gown and a broad-brimmed straw hat , engaged in fishing with the conscientious gravity of a _ gamin de Paris _ . Up to this time Mademoiselle Antonia and her fishing have had nothing to do with our election ; but if you will recall , madame , in the history of Don Quixote -LRB- which I have heard you admire for its common-sense and jovial reasoning -RRB- the rather disagreeable adventures of Rosinante and the muleteers , you will have a foretaste of the good luck which the development of Mademoiselle Antonia 's new passion brought to us . Our rival , Beauvisage , is not only a successful stocking-maker and an exemplary mayor , but he is also a model husband , having never tripped in loyalty to his wife , whom he respects and admires . Every evening , by her orders , he goes to bed before ten o'clock , while Madame Beauvisage and her daughter go into what Arcis is pleased to call society . But there is no more treacherous water , they say , than still water , just as there was nothing less proper and well-behaved than the calm and peaceable Rosinante on the occasion referred to . At any rate , while making the tour of his town according to his laudable official habit , Beauvisage from the top of the bridge chanced to catch sight of the fair Parisian who with outstretched arms and gracefully bent body was pursuing her favorite pastime . A slight movement , the charming impatience with which the pretty fisher twitched her line from the water when the fish had not bitten , was perhaps the electric shock which struck upon the heart of the magistrate , hitherto irreproachable .