nine o’clock
My child , you must take your jewels and your clothes to-morrow to your uncle Pillerault ; for you are not bound to any sacrifice . '' Cesarine was seized with a terror beyond control as she listened to these words , spoken with religious simplicity . The thought came into her mind to go and see Anselme ; but her native delicacy checked it . On the morrow , at nine o'clock , Birotteau , following his wife 's advice , went to find Claparon in the Rue de Provence , in the grasp of anxieties quite other than those through which he had lately passed . To ask for a credit is an ordinary business matter ; it happens every day that those who undertake an enterprise are obliged to borrow capital ; but to ask for the renewal of notes is in commercial jurisprudence what the correctional police is to the court of assizes , -- a first step towards bankruptcy , just as a misdemeanor leads to crime . The secret of your embarrassment is in other hands than your own . A merchant delivers himself over , bound hand and foot , to another merchant ; and mercy is a virtue not practised at the Bourse .