the end of June at about half past five in
the afternoon
You will get your twenty years , my fine fellow ! '' USELESS BEAUTY A very elegant victoria with two beautiful black horses was drawn up in front of the mansion . It was the end of June at about half past five in the afternoon , and the sun shone warm and bright into the large courtyard . The Countess de Mascaret came down just as her husband , who was coming home , appeared in the carriage entrance . He stopped for a few moments to look at his wife and grew rather pale . She was very beautiful , graceful and distinguished looking , with her long oval face , her complexion like gilt ivory , her large gray eyes and her black hair ; and she got into her carriage without looking at him , without even seeming to have noticed him , with such a particularly high-bred air , that the furious jealousy by which he had been devoured for so long , again gnawed at his heart .