four o’clock
Gaudissart to the fore ! We shall make a hundred thousand francs this year , for we 'll pour on every head that respects itself a dozen bottles a year , -- eighteen francs ; say eighteen thousand heads , -- one hundred and eighty thousand francs . We are millionaires ! '' The nuts delivered , Raguet , the workmen , Popinot , and Cesar shelled a sufficient quantity , and before four o'clock they had produced several pounds of oil . Popinot carried the product to show to Vauquelin , who made him a present of a recipe for mixing the essence of nuts with other and less costly oleaginous substances , and scenting it . Popinot went to work at once to take out a patent for the invention and all improvements thereon . The devoted Gaudissart lent him the money to pay the fees , for Popinot was ambitious to pay his share in the undertaking .