eleven o’clock
The king of travellers was amenable to the claims of his old friends , enforced as they were by the enormous premiums offered to him . * * * * * `` Listen , my little Jenny , '' he said in a hackney-coach to a pretty florist . All truly great men delight in allowing themselves to be tyrannized over by a feeble being , and Gaudissart had found his tyrant in Jenny . He was bringing her home at eleven o'clock from the Gymnase , whither he had taken her , in full dress , to a proscenium box on the first tier . `` On my return , Jenny , I shall refurnish your room in superior style . That big Matilda , who pesters you with comparisons and her real India shawls imported by the suite of the Russian ambassador , and her silver plate and her Russian prince , -- who to my mind is nothing but a humbug , -- wo n't have a word to say _ then _ . I consecrate to the adornment of your room all the ` Children ' I shall get in the provinces . ''