twelve o'clock
He has n't got means to stock it , and then see the wages that hay-making runs away with ! He 'd lose by it even at what he 's paying , and he knows it . There wo n't be any difficulty about Stovey . '' By twelve o'clock on that day Mr. Stovey had been brought into the house , and had resigned the land . It had been let to Mr. William Belton at an increased rental , -- a rental increased by nearly forty pounds per annum , -- and that gentleman had already made many of his arrangements for entering upon his tenancy . The twenty pounds had already been paid to Stovey , and the transaction was complete . Mr. Amedroz sat in his chair bewildered , dismayed -- and , as he himself declared , -- shocked , quite shocked , at the precipitancy of the young man .