nine o’clock
The two women will look after the place while you are away . '' No one imagines how the requirements of the law jar upon a heartfelt sorrow . The thought of it is enough to make one turn from civilization and choose rather the customs of the savage . At nine o'clock that morning Mme. Sauvage half-carried Schmucke downstairs , and from the cab he was obliged to beg Remonencq to come with him to the registrar as a second witness . Here in Paris , in this land of ours besotted with Equality , the inequality of conditions is glaringly apparent everywhere and in everything . The immutable tendency of things peeps out even in the practical aspects of Death . In well-to-do families , a relative , a friend , or a man of business spares the mourners these painful details ; but in this , as in the matter of taxation , the whole burden falls heaviest upon the shoulders of the poor .