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`` If the inventor of the trick does n't care for the gun , he shall have my horse , '' added Max . After this night twenty brains were tortured to lay a plot against Agathe and her son , on the basis of Max 's programme . But the devil alone , or chance , could really help them to success ; for the conditions given made the thing well-nigh impossible . The next morning Agathe and Joseph came downstairs just before the second breakfast , which took place at ten o'clock . In Monsieur Hochon 's household the name of first breakfast was given to a cup of milk and slice of bread and butter which was taken in bed , or when rising . While waiting for Madame Hochon , who notwithstanding her age went minutely through the ceremonies with which the duchesses of Louis XV . 's time performed their toilette , Joseph noticed Jean-Jacques Rouget planted squarely on his feet at the door of his house across the street .