nearly five o’clock
-- She turned to the student . `` You are young , '' she said ; `` you have some beliefs still left . I have been privileged , like some dying people , to find sincere and reverent feeling in those about me as I take my leave of this world . '' It was nearly five o'clock that morning when Rastignac came away . He had put Mme. de Beauseant into her traveling carriage , and received her last farewells , spoken amid fast-falling tears ; for no greatness is so great that it can rise above the laws of human affection , or live beyond the jurisdiction of pain , as certain demagogues would have the people believe . Eugene returned on foot to the Maison Vauquer through the cold and darkness . His education was nearly complete .