noon
`` Bon ! '' said LeNoir , with alacrity . `` I give 'em de big move , me ! '' But however unwilling Ranald was to listen to LeNoir singing the lieutenant 's praises , when he met Harry at noon in the office he was even more enthusiastic than LeNoir in his admiration of De Lacy . `` I never saw the likes of him , '' he said . `` He could bring the birds out of the trees with that tongue of his . Indeed , I could not have done what he did whatever .