two o’clock
What should we think of a woman who refused to be beguiled by a love-letter accompanied by such convincing accessories ? '' This letter was delivered by Master Moinot , postman , on the following day , about eight o'clock in the morning , to the porter of the Hotel San-Real . In order to be nearer to the field of action , De Marsay went and breakfasted with Paul , who lived in the Rue de la Pepiniere . At two o'clock , just as the two friends were laughingly discussing the discomfiture of a young man who had attempted to lead the life of fashion without a settled income , and were devising an end for him , Henri 's coachman came to seek his master at Paul 's house , and presented to him a mysterious personage who insisted on speaking himself with his master . This individual was a mulatto , who would assuredly have given Talma a model for the part of Othello , if he had come across him . Never did any African face better express the grand vengefulness , the ready suspicion , the promptitude in the execution of a thought , the strength of the Moor , and his childish lack of reflection . His black eyes had the fixity of the eyes of a bird of prey , and they were framed , like a vulture 's , by a bluish membrane devoid of lashes .