nine o’clock
La Sauvage made out a preliminary statement accounting for three hundred and sixty francs , and then proceeded to prepare a dinner for four persons . And what a dinner ! A fat goose -LRB- the cobbler 's pheasant -RRB- by way of a substantial roast , an omelette with preserves , a salad , and the inevitable broth -- the quantities of the ingredients for this last being so excessive that the soup was more like a strong meat-jelly . At nine o'clock the priest , sent by the curate to watch by the dead , came in with Cantinet , who brought four tall wax candles and some tapers . In the death-chamber Schmucke was lying with his arms about the body of his friend , holding him in a tight clasp ; nothing but the authority of religion availed to separate him from his dead . Then the priest settled himself comfortably in the easy-chair and read his prayers while Schmucke , kneeling beside the couch , besought God to work a miracle and unite him to Pons , so that they might be buried in the same grave ; and Mme. Cantinet went on her way to the Temple to buy a pallet and complete bedding for Mme. Sauvage . The twelve hundred and fifty francs were regarded as plunder .