one o’clock
Brussels seemed a very pleasant place to me when I got out again into the street , and it appeared as if some cheerful , eventful , upward-tending career were even then opening to me , on that selfsame mild , still April night . So impressionable a being is man , or at least such a man as I was in those days . NEXT day the morning hours seemed to pass very slowly at M. Pelet 's ; I wanted the afternoon to come that I might go again to the neighbouring pensionnat and give my first lesson within its pleasant precincts ; for pleasant they appeared to me . At noon the hour of recreation arrived ; at one o'clock we had lunch ; this got on the time , and at last St. Gudule 's deep bell , tolling slowly two , marked the moment for which I had been waiting . At the foot of the narrow back-stairs that descended from my room , I met M. Pelet . `` Comme vous avez l'air rayonnant ! '' said he .