nine o'clock
In due time Dominique was entirely restored , and when peace again blessed the land he wedded his beloved Francoise . The mill was rebuilt , and Pere Merlier had a new wheel upon which to bestow whatever tenderness was not engrossed by his daughter and her husband . CAPTAIN BURLE It was nine o'clock . The little town of Vauchamp , dark and silent , had just retired to bed amid a chilly November rain . In the Rue des Recollets , one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint-Jean , a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house , from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street . Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks , while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp .