two in the morning
`` On the contrary , '' replied Répentigny , `` I am very sorry for every one concerned . '' `` Save your pity ! I shall now bring up my heavy guns . '' The Council of the Galley-on-Land were gathered again in Gougeon 's shop at two in the morning . All Paris was sleeping , and even the orgies of the Beggars ' Ball had sunk to silence . There was animation among the Council , for in a corner , not at first visible , lay a subject of debate -- a prisoner tightly bound with a rope . Each man held some piece of sharp iron , Wife Gougeon her pistol .