ten o'clock
`` That is the exact truth . '' `` Possibly , but appetite comes with eating , and when once you have tasted of the pleasures of the chase , you will want to imitate your companions . Now , see here : we have organized a party at Charbonniere to-morrow , for the gentlemen of Auberive ; there will be some people you know -- Destourbet , justice of the Peace , the clerk Seurrot , Maitre Arbillot and the tax-collector , Boucheseiche . Hutinet went over the ground yesterday , and has appointed the meeting for ten o'clock at the Belle-Etoile . Come with us ; there will be good eating and merriment , and also some fine shooting , I pledge you my word ! '' Julien refused at first , but Claudet insisted , and showed him the necessity of getting more intimately acquainted with the notables of Auberive -- people with whom he would be continually coming in contact as representing the administration of justice and various affairs in the canton . He urged so well that young de Buxieres ended by giving his consent .