eight o’clock
But his brother read to him from another paper some particulars concerning the engine of destruction that had been employed . It was a preserved-meat can , and the fragments of it showed that it had been comparatively small . And Guillaume relapsed into anxiety on learning that people were much astonished at the violent ravages of such a sorry appliance , and that the presence of some new explosive of incalculable power was already suspected . At eight o'clock Bertheroy put in an appearance . Although he was sixty-eight , he showed as much briskness and sprightliness as any young sawbones calling in a friendly way to perform a little operation . He had brought an instrument case , some linen bands and some lint . However , he became angry on finding the injured man nervous , flushed and hot with fever .