twelve o'clock
-LSB- C -RSB- In 1828 , a certain La Fougère brought out a work entitled _ L'Art de n'être jamais tué ni blessé en Duel sans avons pris aucune leçon d'armes et lors même qu'on aurait affaire au premier Tireur de l'Univers . _ The seconds arrived before twelve o'clock . Frederick , as a matter of good taste , thought he ought not to be present at the conference . The Baron and M. Joseph declared that they would be satisfied with the simplest excuses . But Regimbart 's principle being never to yield , and his contention being that Arnoux 's honour should be vindicated -LRB- Frederick had not spoken to him about anything else -RRB- , he asked that the Vicomte should apologise .