eleven o'clock
Nor had von Boehlen been discourteous to him , although he might have felt cause for much resentment . The Prussian glanced at him as he passed , but said nothing . Soon he and his horsemen passed out of sight in the dusk . John , wondering how late it might be , suddenly remembered that he had a watch and found it was eleven o'clock . `` An hour of midnight , '' he said to Fleury . Most all the French stretched upon the ground were now in deep slumber , wounded and unwounded alike . The sounds of cannon fire were sinking away , but they did not die wholly .