noon
I was quite sure that she would not go far , dressed as a pierrot and wearing a night-cap . She took the path wherein the mandrakes dwell . My curiosity doubled , and I followed her up to Mosaïde 's lodge . At this moment the hideous Jew appeared at a window in his dressing-gown and monstrous headgear , like one of those figures who show themselves at the stroke of noon , outside those old clocks more Gothic and more ridiculous than the churches wherein they are kept , for the enjoyment of the yokels and the profit of the beadle . `` He discovered me , hidden as I was behind the foliage , at the very moment when that pretty girl , fleet as Galatea , slipped into the lodge . It looked as if I had followed her up in the manner , way and habit of those satyrs of which we have spoken of late when conferring on the finest passages of Ovid . My dress could but add to such resemblance -- did I tell you , my boy , that I wore only a shirt ?