a quarter to twelve
At twelve o'clock next day Colonel Corcoran came over with nearly the whole of the officers of the Mayo regiment , and was accompanied by many others , as they had the night before given many of their acquaintances an outline of Terence 's story . The men had been on foot from an early hour after breakfast . There had been a parade . Every man 's firelock , accoutrements , and uniform had been very closely inspected , and when they fell in again at a quarter to twelve a most rigid inspection would have failed to find any fault with their appearance . Terence joined the colonel as soon as he came on the ground . `` So your officers are all mounted , I see , Terence ? '' `` Yes , Colonel ; you see the companies are over two hundred strong , for the losses we had have been filled up since , and one officer to each corps could do but little unless he were mounted . ''