five in the morning
When he heard the sound of the music rise , soft as a murmur , and spread through the little church , the Abbe Constantin was filled with such emotion , such joy , that the tears came to his eyes . He could not remember having wept since the day when Jean had said that he wished to share all that he possessed with the mother and sister of those who had fallen by his father 's side under the Prussian bullets . To bring tears to the eyes of the old priest , a little American had been brought across the seas to play a reverie of Chopin in the little church of Longueval . The next day , at half-past five in the morning , the bugle-call rang through the barrack-yard at Souvigny . Jean mounted his horse , and took his place with his division . By the end of May all the recruits in the army are sufficiently instructed to be capable of sharing in the general evolutions . Almost every day manoeuvres of the mounted artillery are executed on the parade-ground .