midnight
`` Chut ! He fed the poor , and freed the wronged . Better than pattering Paters , that ! '' said Cigarette , who thought a midnight mass at Notre Dame or a Salutation at the Madeleine a pretty coup de theatre enough , but who had for all churches and creeds a serene contempt and a fierce disdain . `` Go to the grandams and the children ! '' she would say , with a shrug of her shoulders , to a priest , whenever one in Algiers or Paris attempted to reclaim her ; and a son of the Order of Jesus , famed for persuasiveness and eloquence , had been fairly beaten once when , in the ardor of an African missionary , he had sought to argue with the little Bohemian of the Tricolor , and had had his logic rent in twain , and his rhetoric scattered like dust , under the merciless home-thrusts and the sarcastic artillery of Cigarette 's replies and inquiries . `` Hola ! ''