twelve o'clock
Never trust your business affairs to a _ friend _ . Never trust to a day for receiving a letter of credit , if to a friend belongs the duty of sending it . So swore I , as I parted from the banking-house of Brown and Co. . It was twelve o'clock when I returned to the Rue Saint Louis . I did not re-enter the hotel -- I walked direct to the _ Rotundo _ . My pen fails to paint the dark emotions of my soul , as I stepped under the shadow of that spacious dome . I remember no fooling akin to what I experienced at that moment .