twelve o'clock
I shall get new frames in to-morrow . If you broke these , I would still get more . _ I 'll never give in . _ '' Here the mill-bell rang twelve o'clock . It was the dinner-hour . Moore abruptly turned from the deputation and re-entered his counting-house . His last words had left a bad , harsh impression ; he , at least , had `` failed in the disposing of a chance he was lord of . ''