Six o’clock
`` What time is it ? '' he asked . `` Nearly six o'clock . '' `` Six o'clock ! '' `` Do you not hear the vehicles in the street ? The street-venders are calling their wares . '' It must have been about one o'clock when he closed his eyes ; he had then slept five hours , profoundly , and he felt calm , rested , refreshed , his body active and his mind tranquil , the man of former times , in the days of his happy youth , and not the half-insane man of these last frightful months .