twelve o'clock
As far as I could observe , you were making yourselves merry in that sacred place with the personal defects of others . The lessons you receive here must be futile indeed , if they do not teach you the duty of reverence to God , and courtesy to man . It gives me special pain , Williams , to have observed that you , too , a boy high in your remove , were guilty of this most culpable levity . You will all come to me at twelve o'clock in the library . '' At twelve o'clock they each received a flogging . The pain inflicted was not great , and Duncan and Llewellyn , who had got into similar trouble before , cared very little for it , and went out laughing to tell the number of swishes they had received , to a little crowd of boys who were lingering outside the library door . But not so Eric .