the eight o’clock sun
However , the other side of the river , the Champs Elysees , with their open avenues , caused him some uneasiness ; for he foresaw that cannon would be stationed there to sweep the quays . He thereupon modified several details of his plan , and marked down in a memorandum-book the different positions which the several sections should occupy during the combat . The chief attack , he concluded , must certainly be made from the Rue de Bourgogne and the Rue de l'Universite , while a diversion might be effected on the side of the river . Whilst he thus pondered over his plans the eight o'clock sun , warming the nape of his neck , shone gaily on the broad footways , and gilded the columns of the great structure in front of him . In imagination he already saw the contemplated battle ; clusters of men clinging round those columns , the gates burst open , the peristyle invaded ; and then scraggy arms suddenly appearing high aloft and planting a banner there . At last he slowly went his way homewards again with his gaze fixed upon the ground . But all at once a cooing sound made him look up , and he saw that he was passing through the garden of the Tuileries .