three in the morning
Five days later she gave a splendid feast . The new journal was baptized in floods of wine and wit , with oaths of loyalty , fidelity , and good-fellowship . The name , forgotten now like those of the Liberal , Communal , Departmental , Garde National , Federal , Impartial , was something in `` al '' that was equally imposing and evanescent . At three in the morning Florine could undress and go to bed as if alone , though no one had left the house ; these lights of the epoch were sleeping the sleep of brutes . And when , early in the morning , the packers and vans arrived to remove Florine 's treasures she laughed to see the porters moving the bodies of the celebrated men like pieces of furniture that lay in their way . `` Sic transit '' all her fine things ! all her presents and souvenirs went to the shops of the various dealers , where no one on seeing them would know how those flowers of luxury had been originally paid for .