five o'clock in the evening
He did not suck in the air ; he did not hasten his speed ; he did not dilate his nostrils ; he uttered none of the neighings that indicate the end of a journey . To observe him well , he appeared to be as indifferent as if the farm , to which he had gone several times , however , and which he ought to know , had been several hundreds of miles away . `` That is not a horse near home , '' thought the young novice . And , meanwhile , according to what Harris had said the evening before , there only remained six miles to go , and , of these last six miles , at five o'clock in the evening four had been certainly cleared . Now , if the horse felt nothing of the stable , of which he should have great need , nothing besides announced the approaches to a great clearing , such as the Farm of San Felice must be . Mrs. Weldon , indifferent as she then was to what did not concern her child , was struck at seeing the country still so desolate . What !