seven o’clock before
Six months more passed , and the year after Charles was finally sent to school at Rouen , where his father took him towards the end of October , at the time of the St. Romain fair . It would now be impossible for any of us to remember anything about him . He was a youth of even temperament , who played in playtime , worked in school-hours , was attentive in class , slept well in the dormitory , and ate well in the refectory . He had in loco parentis * a wholesale ironmonger in the Rue Ganterie , who took him out once a month on Sundays after his shop was shut , sent him for a walk on the quay to look at the boats , and then brought him back to college at seven o'clock before supper . Every Thursday evening he wrote a long letter to his mother with red ink and three wafers ; then he went over his history note-books , or read an old volume of `` Anarchasis '' that was knocking about the study . When he went for walks he talked to the servant , who , like himself , came from the country . * In place of a parent .