four o'clock
`` You express yourself like a First Course for the Foreigner , '' said Tricotrin , much annoyed . `` Devil take your stuffed parrot ! '' The heat of the sun increased towards midday , and drops began to trickle under the young man 's hat . By four o'clock he had called upon sixty-two persons , exclusive of Sanquereau , whom he had been unable to wake . He bethought himself of Lajeunie , the novelist ; but Lajeunie could offer him nothing more serviceable than a pass for the Elysée - Montmartre . `` Now how is it possible that I spend my life among such imbeciles ? '' groaned the unhappy poet ; `` one offers me a parrot , and another a pass for a dancing-hall !