ten o'clock
That Vandeuvres was a mere child ! She made a bored little gesture . That evening at the Bal Mabille Nana obtained a colossal success . When toward ten o'clock she made her appearance , the uproar was afready formidable . That classic night of madness had brought together all that was young and pleasure loving , and now this smart world was wallowing in the coarseness and imbecility of the servants ' hall . There was a fierce crush under the festoons of gas lamps , and men in evening coats and women in outrageous low-necked old toilets , which they did not mind soiling , were howling and surging to and fro under the maddening influence of a vast drunken fit . At a distance of thirty paces the brass instruments of the orchestra were inaudible .