four o'clock in the morning
Yes , Pierre paid too . They would certainly have spared him , since he was only a boy , but maddened by the death of their officer , half a dozen bayonets were plunged into his breast . Thither the next day came Sir Gervaise Yeovil , who had been with the Duke at the Duchess of Richmond 's famous ball in Brussels . Young Frank had left that ball at four o'clock in the morning , according to order , only to find that later orders had directed the army to march at two and that his baggage had gone . He had fought that day in pumps and silk stockings which he had worn at the ball ; dabbled , gory , muddy , they were now . Sir Gervaise Yeovil was an old friend of the Duke of Wellington . The Iron Duke , as they called him , was nevertheless very tender-hearted that morning .