one o'clock in the morning
It was past midnight before all these perquisitions were completed . No one dared to complain at these indignities put upon peaceable citizens on the mere denunciation of an obscure police agent . These were times when every regulation , every command , had to be accepted without a murmur . At one o'clock in the morning , Grosjean himself was thankful to get back to bed , having satisfied the commissary that he was not a dangerous conspirator . But of anyone even remotely approaching the description of the ci-devant Comtesse de Sucy , or of any man called Bertin , there was not the faintest trace . But no feeling of discomfort ever lasted very long with citizen Tournefort . He was a person of vast resource and great buoyancy of temperament .