8 P.M.
This crumb of comfort lasted but a very little while ; he glanced around and discovered Jimmy standing in an imposing attitude in a corner , with a dark and deadly frown on his face . What that meant was very plain -- HE WAS IMPERSONATING THE DEITY ! Think of the guileless sublimity of that idea . We reached Vispach at 8 P.M. , only about seven hours out from St. Nicholas . So we must have made fully a mile and a half an hour , and it was all downhill , too , and very muddy at that . We stayed all night at the Hotel de Soleil ; I remember it because the landlady , the portier , the waitress , and the chambermaid were not separate persons , but were all contained in one neat and chipper suit of spotless muslin , and she was the prettiest young creature I saw in all that region . She was the landlord 's daughter .