About two o’clock
Rogron himself carried the paper to Gouraud , who had been a colonel and lived on the square , and whose long yarns were Rogron 's delight ; the latter sometimes puzzled over the warnings he had received , and asked himself how such a lively companion could be dangerous . He was fool enough to tell the colonel he had been warned against him , and to repeat all the `` clique '' had said . God knows how the colonel , who feared no one , and was equally to be dreaded with pistols or a sword , gave tongue about Madame Tiphaine and her Amadis , and the ministerialists of the Upper town , persons capable of any villany to get places , and who counted the votes at elections to suit themselves , etc. . About two o'clock Rogron started for a little walk . He was quite happy if some shopkeeper standing on the threshold of his door would stop him and say , `` Well , pere Rogron , how goes it with _ you _ ? '' Then he would talk , and ask for news , and gather all the gossip of the town . He usually went as far as the Upper town , sometimes to the ravines , according to the weather .