eleven o’clock
The results of the researches which had occupied him for ten years past were now out of danger and in all readiness , so that if occasion required they might at once be delivered to the French government . And , apart from certain scruples which came to him at the thought of the unworthiness of French financial and political society ; he was simply delaying any further steps in the matter until his marriage with Marie , in order that he might associate her with the gift of universal peace which he imagined he was about to bestow upon the world . It was through Bertheroy and with great difficulty that Guillaume had managed to secure two seats in court for Salvat 's trial . When he and Pierre presented themselves for admission at eleven o'clock , they fancied that they would never be able to enter . The large gates of the Palace of Justice were kept closed , several passages were fenced off , and terror seemed to reign in the deserted building , as if indeed the judges feared some sudden invasion of bomb-laden Anarchists . Each door and barrier , too , was guarded by soldiers , with whom the brothers had to parley . When they at last entered the Assize Court they found it already crowded with people , who were apparently quite willing to suffocate there for an hour before the arrival of the judges , and to remain motionless for some seven or eight hours afterwards , since it was reported that the authorities wished to get the case over in a single sitting .