Chap.

 1        1|              CHAPTER I~At nine o’clock in the evening the body
 2        1|        they advertise for nine o’clock?” muttered Hector, whose
 3        1|      that they’d begin at nine o’clock punctually.”~For a moment
 4        2|              CHAPTER II~At ten o’clock the next morning Nana was
 5        2|         to be at home by eight o’clock in the morning, the young
 6        2|     still quite warm, till ten o’clock. Then he, too, would go
 7        2|        Twenty louis.”~“At what o’clock?”~“At three. It’s settled
 8        2|       her lassitude.~At eleven o’clock, when Zoe showed Mme Lerat
 9        2|         got to go out at three o’clock?” she muttered. “It IS a
10        2|         profound boredom:~“Two o’clock already. I must go out.
11        2|         start on hearing three o’clock strike.~“Good God!” she
12        2|        take the half–past four o’clock train if you’re back here
13        2|          the money before four o’clock.”~“Oh, there’ll be no time
14        3| particular Tuesday, toward ten o’clock in the evening, there were
15        3|         you, dear boy.”~Eleven o’clock struck. Assisted by her
16        4|        every morning at eleven o’clock, when she would take him
17        4|           It was close on four o’clock. In the dining room a card
18        4|          eye on the door.~Five o’clock struck. The dancing had
19        4|          across it. It was six o’clock in the morning. Over the
20        5|       his eyes and looked at the clock and the barometer on his
21        5|        from the barometer to the clock. In the course of his march
22        6|     horizon’s verge.~At eleven o’clock, when the second lunch bell
23        6|          headache. Toward four o’clock he said he would go upstairs
24        6|      serious.~It was only four o’clock in the afternoon, and there
25        6|          went off before seven o’clock. But it’ll be a change for
26        6|     money flung about like one o’clock! I don’t wonder at all that
27        6|          his escape toward two o’clock next day in order to arrange
28        7|      that it was close on nine o’clock. Nana would soon be coming
29        7|         But shortly before ten o’clock another gentleman, a tall,
30        7|       ashamed and nervous.~Ten o’clock struck, and suddenly it
31        7|        aunt’s as late as eight o’clock, when, seeing Louiset very
32        7|        It was half–past twelve o’clock. How long was she going
33        7|       drizzle was falling. Two o’clock struck at the Trinite. The
34        7|    waiting where he was.~Three o’clock struck, then four, but he
35        7|        the station toward nine o’clock; that meant about four hours
36        7|       the pavement. Until five o’clock he walked to and fro, looking
37        8|     chairs. It was nearing one o’clock when the company separated,
38        8|     lines. It was close on one o’clock when they once more trudged
39        8|      with plate–glass doors, the clock and what remained of the
40        8|         by ladies. It was five o’clock, and along the silent pavements
41        8|      which stood in front of the clock. Nana scrutinized the portrait
42        8|           It was only ten by the clock, and this was a way of killing
43        8|       resembled the ticking of a clock by which they regulated
44        8|       never came in before six o’clock, she made arrangements for
45        8|      after dinner, toward nine o’clock. On the pavements of the
46        8|  Montmartre. There up till two o’clock in the morning restaurants,
47        8|          in Paris between nine o’clock in the evening and three
48        8|          came in toward eleven o’clock and found the door bolted.
49        8|     Satin’s caresses. When two o’clock struck the candle was still
50        8|      sleep again, and at eight o’clock, when she woke up, she escaped
51        9|        re kept till after four o’clock.”~But Bosc just then came
52       10|          arrived daily at four o’clock he seemed so wretched that
53       10|          a bath. Toward eleven o’clock Francois would come and
54       10|         her till close on five o’clock, and then only she would
55       10|    shadow of the curtains. One o’clock struck. The Avenue de Villiers
56       11|        dust, but toward eleven o’clock, just when the carriages
57       11|         formed as the works of a clock and slipped along amid a
58       11|        were trembling like one o’clock. I lay twenty louis she
59       11|       success. When toward ten o’clock she made her appearance,
60       12|         with colic toward four o’clock. When she didn’t come back
61       13|         he went out toward ten o’clock and traversed Paris, wandered
62       13|      would save him. And three o’clock was striking when he entered
63       13|         the baker, who at nine o’clock had turned up, bill in hand.
64       13|         to return toward three o’clock, whereupon, with many foul
65       13|          remaining.~Toward two o’clock, when Nana was beginning
66       13|        Avenue de Villiers. Ten o’clock was striking. As he had
67       14|   evening in July toward eight o’clock, Lucy, while getting out
68       14|        them. “I saw him at six o’clock, and he hasn’t moved since.
69       14|          in contemplation of the clock, the design of which represented