about twelve o'clock
`` I remember it , '' replied Chevydale , `` and ; yet my agents told me that Burke did everything in his power to prevent M'Mahon from voting for you . '' `` That , '' replied the other , `` was to preserve his own character from the charge of inconsistency ; for , I again assure you that he had promised us M'Mahon 's vote , and that he urged him privately to vote against you . But d -- n the scoundrel , he is not worth the conversation we had about him . Father Magowan , in consequence of whose note to me I wrote to ask you here , states in the communication I had from him , that the parties will be here about twelve o'clock -- Burke himself , he thinks , and M'Mahon along with the rest . The priest wishes to have these Hogans driven out of the parish -- a wish in which I most cordially join him . I hope we shall soon rid the country of him and his villanous associates . Talking of the country , what is to be done ? ''