ten o'clock in the morning
But Leon offered up earnest prayers that victory might side with the colonel of cuirassiers . He was wrong , I confess ; but what lover would have been sinless enough to cast the first stone at him ? And here is an account of how the precious Fougas had spent his day . At ten o'clock in the morning , the youngest two captains of the 23d came to conduct him in proper style to the residence of the Colonel . M. Rollon occupied a little palace of the imperial epoch . A marble tablet , inserted over the porte-cochère , still bore the words , _ Ministère des Finances _ -- a souvenir of the glorious time when Napoleon 's court followed its master to Fontainebleau . Colonel Rollon , the lieutenant-colonel , the major-in-chief , the three majors of battalions , the surgeon-major , and ten or a dozen officers were outside , awaiting the arrival of the illustrious guest from the other world .