about nine in the morning
At the same time , the Marquis was having him taught Eastern languages , the international law of Europe , heraldry , and history from the original sources , charters , early documents , and collections of edicts . Camille had lately begun to study rhetoric . The day when Popinot arranged to go to question M. d'Espard was a Thursday , a holiday . At about nine in the morning , before their father was awake , the brothers were playing in the garden . Clement was finding it hard to refuse his brother , who was anxious to go to the shooting-gallery for the first time , and who begged him to second his request to the Marquis . The Viscount always rather took advantage of his weakness , and was very fond of wrestling with his brother . So the couple were quarreling and fighting in play like schoolboys .