midnight
`` Very well , then -- you detain my baggage , '' concluded Léon . `` You shall smart for this . I will weary out your life with persecutions ; I will drag you from court to court ; if there is justice to be had in France , it shall be rendered between you and me . And I will make you a by-word -- I will put you in a song -- a scurrilous song -- an indecent song -- a popular song -- which the boys shall sing to you in the street , and come and howl through these spars at midnight ! '' He had gone on raising his voice at every phrase , for all the while the landlord was very placidly retiring ; and now , when the last glimmer of light had vanished from the arch , and the last footstep died away in the interior , Léon turned to his wife with a heroic countenance . `` Elvira , '' said he , `` I have now a duty in life . I shall destroy that man as Eugène Sue destroyed the concierge .