five
o’clock
`` Ah ! you are of my mind . Attention ! the attack is fixed for five o'clock . Suppose you and I were to carry the bastion ten minutes before the colonel from Egypt can bring his men upon the ground . '' At this there was a fierce burst of joy and laughter ; the strange laughter of veterans and born invincibles . Then a yell of exulting assent , accompanied by the thunder of impatient drums , and the rattle of fixing bayonets .