midnight
She firmly believed that nothing now could save Juliette from death , and a great feeling of tenderness had crept into her heart , for the woman whom she had looked upon as an enemy and a rival . She too had learnt in those brief days the great lesson that revenge belongs to God alone . The Cheval Borgne . It was close upon midnight . The place had become suffocatingly hot ; the fumes of rank tobacco , of rancid butter , and of raw spirits hung like a vapour in mid-air . The principal room in the `` Auberge du Cheval Borgne '' had been used for the past five years now as the chief meeting-place of the ultra-sansculotte party of the Republic . The house itself was squalid and dirty , up one of those mean streets which , by their narrow way and shelving buildings , shut out sun , air , and light from their miserable inhabitants .