twelve o'clock
This was a trying task to that humane and amiable gentleman , who had already heard of the unutterable tortures which the criminal suffered from the horror of approaching death , and the dread of eternity ; for neither by penitence nor even by remorse , was he in the slightest degree moved . `` To die ! '' said he , staggering back ; `` to be in eternity to-morrow ! to have to face God before twelve o'clock ! tarrible ! tar -- rible ! tarrible !