noon
Ever after the smell of sulphur brought to the Squire of Grey Pine the sense of some pleasant association and then a less agreeable remembrance . `` Read it -- read it out loud , Penhallow ! It was a near thing . Wardlow could n't meet us -- be here at noon . Read it -- I 've read it about ten times -- want to hear it again . I 've been as near broke as you -- but that 's an old story . When you 're at your last dollar , buy a fast pair of trotters -- one thousand-dollar pair -- and drive them .