one o’clock in
      the morning
The personage in black rose . `` Death and passion ! You make me boil , Gringoire . The man on the tower of Saint-Gervais has just cried half-past one o'clock in the morning . '' `` Oh , '' retorted Gringoire , ``' tis no fault of mine , but of the watch and the king . I have just had a narrow escape . I always just miss being hung .