midnight
Nelson is a Norfolk man ; and you charge through as he does . You bear right on , and rig a gangway for the landing , which puts them all quite upon the scream . All three cutters race after you pell-mell , and it is much if they do not run into one another . You take the beach , stem on , with the tide upon the ebb , and by that time it ought to be getting on for midnight . What to do then , I need not tell you ; but make all the stand you can to spare us any hurry . But do n't give the knock-down blow if you can help it ; the lawyers make such a point of that , from their intimacy with the prize-fighters . '' Clearly perceiving their duty now , these three men braced up loin , and sailed to execute the same accordingly .