one o'clock
Meanwhile , the demoniac yelling kept up , together with the volleys of musketry . The Russians had not then learned to transport light guns on wheels , the King of Prussia having to teach them that trick near twenty years later ; so that we knew , what men do not often know in our circumstances , exactly what we had to contend against . After an hour of this volleying and yelling on the part of the Russians to which we replied by putting leaden bullets in them , Count Saxe came up to me . It was then after one o'clock -- in those latitudes a time that is neither day nor night , nor morning , nor evening , but a ghostlike hour , in which all shapes , all things , the very sky and earth , are strange to human beings . I saw by the faint half-light a smile on my master 's face ; he was ever the handsomest man alive , and when he had the light of battle in his eye , he was more beautiful than Apollo , lord of the unerring bow . He was still in his court costume , but there was a great rent in his velvet coat made by the musket he had occasionally used , his gem-embroidered waistcoat was soiled with powder , and his lace cravat and ruffles were in rags . `` Babache , '' said he , `` I have it .