Chapter

 1 3|   dinner,~lasting at least five hours, to which were invited the
 2 4|       way of amusing their idle hours than by observing these~
 3 4|        to the~office at his own hours, and work at his vaudevilles
 4 4|         such men sit to him for hours.~ ~Thus it happened that
 5 4|     government loses~fully four hours out of the nine which the
 6 4|    clerks owe to the service,~--hours wasted, as we shall see,
 7 4|         to be~together for nine hours of the day, looked upon
 8 8|       and no within twenty-four hours. But~postpone the appointment,
 9 8|      the palace for five mortal hours, a prey to~feverish agitation.
10 8|         have served twenty-four~hours," said Rabourdin with a
11 8| certainly deserves two or three hours attention from the king'
12 8|      the State in the matter of~hours. But why is it that we idle