ten o'clock
I am glad that it should be so . The peasants understand men of their own class , and will , I believe , follow them better than they would men above them in rank . They will , at least , have no suspicion of them ; and the strength of the insurrection lies in the fact that it is a peasant rising , and not an insurrection stirred up by men of family . '' At ten o'clock they arrived at Cathelineau 's camp . Just as they reached the spot , they encountered Monsieur Sapinaud de la Verrie . He was riding at the head of about a hundred peasants , all of whom were armed with muskets . They had , early that morning , attacked the little town of Herbiers .