about ten
o'clock in the morning
Maxence Gilet and Flore Brazier , now secure against all attack , were very merry over the arrival of another of old Rouget 's nephews . They knew they were able , at the first signal of danger , to make the old man sign a power of attorney under which the money in the Funds could be transferred either to Max or Flore . If the will leaving Flore the principal , should be revoked , an income of fifty thousand francs was a very tolerable crumb of comfort , -- more particularly after squeezing from the real estate that mortgage of a hundred and forty thousand . The day after his arrival , Philippe called upon his uncle about ten o'clock in the morning , anxious to present himself in his dilapidated clothing . When the convalescent of the Hopital du Midi , the prisoner of the Luxembourg , entered the room , Flore Brazier felt a shiver pass over her at the repulsive sight . Gilet himself was conscious of that particular disturbance both of mind and body , by which Nature sometimes warns us of a latent enmity , or a coming danger . If there was something indescribably sinister in Philippe 's countenance , due to his recent misfortunes , the effect was heightened by his clothes .