six o’clock
There was but one mourning coach , which the priest and chorister agreed to share with Eugene and Christophe . `` There is no one else to follow us , '' remarked the priest , `` so we may as well go quickly , and so save time ; it is half-past five . '' But just as the coffin was put in the hearse , two empty carriages , with the armorial bearings of the Comte de Restaud and the Baron de Nucingen , arrived and followed in the procession to Pere-Lachaise . At six o'clock Goriot 's coffin was lowered into the grave , his daughters ' servants standing round the while . The ecclesiastic recited the short prayer that the students could afford to pay for , and then both priest and lackeys disappeared at once . The two grave diggers flung in several spadefuls of earth , and then stopped and asked Rastignac for their fee . Eugene felt in vain in his pocket , and was obliged to borrow five francs of Christophe .