twelve
o’clock at night
-- broum ! broum ! -- -LRB- Mind you are round at the printers ' by six o'clock to-morrow , old chap , to send off the porters . -RRB- -- The newspaper , sir , is written in the street , at the writers ' houses , in the printing-office between eleven and twelve o'clock at night . In the Emperor 's time , sir , these shops for spoiled paper were not known . Oh ! he would have cleared them out with four men and a corporal ; they would not have come over _ him _ with their talk .