eleven o'clock
My plans were soon decided upon . I resolved to remain only long enough in Paris to provide myself with a comfortable travelling carriage -- secure a good courier -- and start for Baden ; when I trusted that my pretensions , whatever favour they might have been once received with , would certainly now , at least , be listened to with more prospect of being successful . I opened the Galignani 's paper of the day , to direct me in my search , and had scarcely read a few lines before a paragraph caught my eye , which not a little amused me ; it was headed -- Serious riot at the Salon des Etrangers , and attempt to rob the Bank : -- `` Last evening , among the persons who presented themselves at the table of this fashionable resort , were certain individuals , who , by their names and dress bespoke any thing rather than the rank and condition of those who usually resort there , and whose admission is still unexplained , notwithstanding the efforts of the police to unravel the mystery . The proprietors of the bank did not fail to remark these persons ; but scrupled , from fear of disturbing the propriety of the salon , to take the necessary steps for their exclusion -- reserving their attention to the adoption of precautions against such intrusion in future -- unfortunately , as it turned out eventually , for , towards eleven o'clock , one of these individuals , having lost a considerable sum at play , proceeded in a very violent and outrageous manner to denounce the bank , and went so far as to accuse the croupier of cheating . This language having failed to excite the disturbance it was evidently intended to promote , was soon followed up by a most dreadful personal attack upon the banquier , in which he was thrown from his seat , and the cassette , containing several thousand francs in gold and notes , immediately laid hold of . The confusion now became considerable , and it was apparent , that the whole had been a pre-concerted scheme . Several persons , leaping upon the table , attempted to extinguish the great lustre of the salon , in which bold attempt , they were most spiritedly resisted by some of the other players and the gens-d'arme , who had by this time arrived in force .