about nine in the morning
Rough customer as he was , Desplein grasped the water-carrier 's hand , and said , `` Bring them all to me . '' He got the native of Cantal into the Hotel-Dieu , where he took the greatest care of him . Bianchon had already observed in his chief a predilection for Auvergnats , and especially for water carriers ; but as Desplein took a sort of pride in his cures at the Hotel-Dieu , the pupil saw nothing very strange in that . One day , as he crossed the Place Saint-Sulpice , Bianchon caught sight of his master going into the church at about nine in the morning . Desplein , who at that time never went a step without his cab , was on foot , and slipped in by the door in the Rue du Petit-Lion , as if he were stealing into some house of ill fame . The house surgeon , naturally possessed by curiosity , knowing his master 's opinions , and being himself a rabid follower of Cabanis -LRB- _ Cabaniste en dyable _ , with the _ y _ , which in Rabelais seems to convey an intensity of devilry -RRB- -- Bianchon stole into the church , and was not a little astonished to see the great Desplein , the atheist , who had no mercy on the angels -- who give no work to the lancet , and can not suffer from fistula or gastritis -- in short , this audacious scoffer kneeling humbly , and where ? In the Lady Chapel , where he remained through the mass , giving alms for the expenses of the service , alms for the poor , and looking as serious as though he were superintending an operation .