eleven o'clock in the
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To carry out the plan , he had only to cut off the lower portion of that letter with du Croisier 's signature , and to fill in the figures to turn it into a bill , and present it to the Kellers . There was a dreadful struggle with temptation ; tears shed , but the honor of the family triumphed , subject to one condition . Victurnien wanted to be sure of his beautiful Diane ; he would do nothing unless she should consent to their flight . So he went to the Duchess in the Rue Faubourg Saint-Honore , and found her in coquettish morning dress , which cost as much in thought as in money , a fit dress in which to begin to play the part of Angel at eleven o'clock in the morning . Mme. de Maufrigneuse was somewhat pensive . Cares of a similar kind were gnawing her mind ; but she took them gallantly . Of all the various feminine organizations classified by physiologists , there is one that has something indescribably terrible about it .