Seven o'clock
Ten thousand francs was the reward offered me by this adorable creature ! Well , then , why should not M. Charles Saurez , on his side , pay me another ten thousand for the same document , which was absolutely undistinguishable from the first ? Ten thousand , instead of two hundred which he had the audacity to offer me ! Seven o'clock had struck before I finally bowed my clients out of the room . Theodore had gone . The lazy lout would never stay as much as five minutes after his appointed time , so I had to show the adorable creature and her fat brother out of the premises myself . But I did not mind that .