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Otherwise they will be obliged to wait for the night-express , and they will arrive at the same hour as I did . '' `` They wo n't thank me -- they wo n't thank me , '' Valentin murmured . `` They will pass an atrocious night , and Urbain does n't like the early morning air . I do n't remember ever in my life to have seen him before noon -- before breakfast . No one ever saw him . We do n't know how he is then . Perhaps he 's different .