Ten o'clock
Ignorance constitutes our peace of mind ; self-deception our felicity . '' The _ citoyenne _ Gamelin set the soup on the table , said the Benedicite and seated her son and her guest at the board . She stood up herself to eat , declining the chair the _ citoyen _ Brotteaux offered her beside him ; she said she knew what good manners required of a woman . Ten o'clock in the forenoon . Not a breath of wind . It was the hottest July ever known . In the narrow Rue de Jérusalem a hundred or so citizens of the Section were waiting in queue at the baker 's door , under the eye of four National Guards who stood at ease smoking their pipes .