two in the morning
For the present you , too , are free to go and do your duty . Now leave me . Business presses , and I am sick and angry at the sight of you . '' It was just two in the morning when I reached the alarm-post . Brussels by this time was full of the rolling of drums and screaming of pipes ; and the regiment formed up in darkness rendered tenfold more confusing by a mob of citizens , some wildly excited , others paralysed by terror , and all intractable . We had , moreover , no small trouble to disengage from our ranks the wives and families who had most unwisely followed many officers abroad , and now clung to their dear ones bidding them farewell . To end this most distressing scene I had in some instances to use a roughness which it still afflicts me to remember .