about one o’clock
Is it possible to rejoice at any one 's death ? I was n't fond of the girl , myself ; but it is very sad to die at her age . Be off with you , and do n't go on sniggering like that , or I will throw my scissors in your face ! ' It was only about one o'clock that a peasant , who had gone to Plassans to sell vegetables , had told Doctor Pascal of Albine 's death , and had added that Jeanbernat wished to see him . The doctor now was feeling a little relieved by what he had just shouted as he passed the parsonage . He had gone out of his way expressly to give himself that satisfaction . He reproached himself for the death of the girl as for a crime in which he had participated .