nine o’clock
Most people had believed , from the scene of the day before , that the king would not attend , and much astonishment was expressed when it was announced that he had set off with his brother and all the court . The rendezvous was at the Point St. Louis . It was thus they named a cross-road where the martyr king used to sit under an oak-tree and administer justice . Everyone was therefore assembled here at nine o'clock , when the new officer , object of the general curiosity , unknown as he was to almost everyone , appeared on a magnificent black horse . All eyes turned towards him . He was a man about thirty-five , tall , marked by the smallpox , and with a disagreeable expression . Dressed in a jacket of green cloth braided with silver , with a silver shoulder belt , on which the king 's arms were embroidered in gold ; on his head a cap with a long plume ; in his left hand a spear , and in his right the éstortuaire -LSB- Footnote : The éstortuaire was a stick , which the chief huntsman presented to the king , to put aside the branches of the trees when he was going at full gallop . -RSB-