noon
`` Question me not , Haco ! Out of my memory , all that hath passed here ! '' `` Not yet , '' said Haco , with that gloomy and intense seriousness of voice and aspect , which was so at variance with his years , and which impressed all he said with an indescribable authority . `` Not yet ; for even while the chamberlain went his round with the parting gifts , I , standing in the angle of the wall in the yard , heard the Duke 's deep whisper to Roger Bigod , who has the guard of the keape , ` Have the men all armed at noon in the passage below the council-hall , to mount at the stamp of my foot : and if then I give thee a prisoner -- wonder not , but lodge him -- ' The Duke paused ; and Bigod said , ` Where , my liege ? ' And the Duke answered fiercely , ` Where ? why , where but in the Tour noir ? -- where but in the cell in which Malvoisin rotted out his last hour ? '