five o'clock
`` You 're out of luck , comrade , '' the others told Coupeau . They ordered two fresh bottles . The glasses were filled up again as fast as they were emptied , the booze increased . Towards five o'clock it began to get disgusting , so much so that Lantier kept very quiet , thinking of how to give the others the slip ; brawling and throwing the wine about was no longer his style . Just then Coupeau stood up to make the drunkard 's sign of the cross . Touching his head he pronounced Montpernasse , then Menilmonte as he brought his hand to his right shoulder , Bagnolet giving himself a blow in the chest , and wound up by saying stewed rabbit three times as he hit himself in the pit of the stomach . Then the hatter took advantage of the clamor which greeted the performance of this feat and quietly made for the door .