four o’clock
Sometimes , on getting home late at night , I found him sitting upon one of the stone posts of the porte-cochere . This lover of mine had very handsome eyes , a long , thick , fan-shaped beard , with a moustache and side-whiskers ; nothing could be seen of his skin but his white cheek-bones , and a noble forehead ; it was truly an antique head . The prince , as you know , defended the Tuileries on the riverside , during the July days . He returned to Saint-Cloud that night , when all was lost , and said to me : ` I came near being killed at four o'clock . I was aimed at by one of the insurgents , when a young man , with a long beard , whom I have often seen at the opera , and who was leading the attack , threw up the man 's gun , and saved me . ' So my adorer was evidently a republican ! In 1831 , after I came to lodge in this house , I found him , one day , leaning with his back against the wall of it ; he seemed pleased with my disasters ; possibly he may have thought they drew us nearer together .