eleven in
the morning
`` To-day is Mid-Lent . '' `` Well ? '' `` To-morrow the execution takes place at seven o'clock . Now the crowd of maskers , who will pass the night at the balls , will necessarily meet the mournful procession on their return to Paris ; without speaking of the place of execution , the Barrière Saint Jacques , where will be heard , in the distance , the music at the surrounding taverns ; for , to celebrate the last day of the carnival , they dance in the wine-shops until ten or eleven in the morning . '' The next morning the sun rose clear and glorious . At four o'clock several pickets of infantry and cavalry surrounded and guarded the approaches of Bicetre . We will conduct the reader to the cell where we will find the widow and her daughter Calabash .