One o'clock
To behold sights that no other eye had ever looked upon ! To come after the Gauls , the Romans , the Franks , the Anglo-Saxons and to be the first to pass ! To be the first to pass this way , ahead of the millions and millions of men who would follow in his track , on the new path which he would have inaugurated ! One o'clock ... . Half-past one ... . More ridges of sand , more wrecks . Always that curtain of clouds .