noon
`` Curse your insolence ! '' exclaimed the Duke . `` How much am I to bear from this varlet and his varlets ? Beaucaire , if you have not left Bath by to-morrow noon , you will be clapped into jail , and the lashing you escaped to-night shall be given you thrice tenfold ! '' `` I shall be-in the -- Assemily -- Room ' at nine -- o'clock , one week -- from -- to-night , '' answered the young man , smiling jauntily , though his lips were colorless . The words cost him nearly all his breath and strength . `` You mus ' keep -- in the -- backgroun ' , monsieur .