about one
o'clock in the morning
After we had eaten a good supper , we went up to our beds , and I said to Buche , `` Ha ! Jean , to do what you please is quite a different thing from being forced to respond to the roll-call . '' We both laughed in spite of the misfortunes of the country , of course without thinking , otherwise we should have been veritable rascals . For the second time we went to sleep in our good bed , when about one o'clock in the morning we were wakened in a most extraordinary manner : the drums were beating and we heard men marching all over the village . I pushed Jean , and he said , `` I hear it , the Prussians are outside . '' You can not imagine our terror , but it was much worse a moment after ; some one knocked at the door of the inn , and it opened ; in a moment the great hall was full of people . Some one came up the stairs .