eight o'clock
He had also asked all his friends of the Rue des Quatre-Vents . Tullia the dancer , who was not unkind , said gossip , to du Bruel , had come without her duke . The proprietors of the newspapers , for whom most of the journalists wrote , were also of the party . At eight o'clock , when the lights of the candles in the chandeliers shone over the furniture , the hangings , and the flowers , the rooms wore the festal air that gives to Parisian luxury the appearance of a dream ; and Lucien felt indefinable stirrings of hope and gratified vanity and pleasure at the thought that he was the master of the house . But how and by whom the magic wand had been waved he no longer sought to remember . Florine and Coralie , dressed with the fanciful extravagance and magnificent artistic effect of the stage , smiled on the poet like two fairies at the gates of the Palace of Dreams . And Lucien was almost in a dream .