twelve o’clock
`` I beg your pardon , sir , I have yours . '' `` Not till to-morrow . '' `` Why , you would not take such a pettifogging advantage of an old comrade as that . '' `` Tell him the day ends at twelve o'clock , '' said one of the colonels interested by this strange strife . `` Ah ! '' cried Raynal , triumphantly ; `` but no , '' said he , altering his tone , `` let us leave that sort of argument to lawyers . I have come a good many miles to fight with you , general ; and now you must decide to pay me this little compliment on my arrival , or put a bitter affront on me -- choose ! ''