midnight
This was a source of grief to him , for , blinded though he was by his fanatical ardour , he at last grew conscious of the ever-increasing hostility which surrounded him . Even at the Mehudins ' he now met with a colder reception : the old woman would laugh slyly ; Muche no longer obeyed him , and the beautiful Norman cast glances of hasty impatience at him , unable as she was to overcome his coldness . At the Quenus ' , too , he had lost Auguste 's friendship . The assistant no longer came to see him in his room on the way to bed , being greatly alarmed by the reports which he heard concerning this man with whom he had previously shut himself up till midnight . Augustine had made her lover swear that he would never again be guilty of such imprudence ; however , it was Lisa who turned the young man into Florent 's determined enemy by begging him and Augustine to defer their marriage till her cousin should vacate the little bedroom at the top of the house , as she did not want to give that poky dressing-room on the first floor to the new shop girl whom she would have to engage . From that time forward Auguste was anxious that the `` convict '' should be arrested . He had found such a pork shop as he had long dreamed of , not at Plaisance certainly , but at Montrouge , a little farther away .