eleven o'clock
M. Murphy said to me then , ` Germain is free ; here is a letter for the governor of the prison ; before you arrive , he will have received the order to set Germain at liberty , and you can bring him away . ' I could not believe what I heard , and yet it was true . Quick -- quick -- I took a cab -- I arrived -- and it is now below waiting for us . '' We renounce the attempt to describe the delight of the two lovers when they left La Force ; of the evening they passed in the little chamber of Rigolette , which Germain left at eleven o'clock for a modest furnished apartment . Let us sum up in a few words the practical or theoretical ideas we have endeavored to place in relief in this episode of a prison life . We shall esteem ourselves very happy if we have shown the insufficiency , the impotency , and the danger of imprisonment in common . The disproportion which exists between the appreciation and punishment of certain crimes , and those of certain other offenses .