Chapter

1 II  |         so lightly and flippantly struck the General dumb~with amazement.~ ~"
2 VI  |        the desert.~ ~The Duchess, struck from the first by the appearance
3 VI  |        mischievously as the clock struck twelve.~ ~"Ah! you have
4 VIII|            One of the things that struck me most on the journey,"
5 IX  |           she said, as the clocks struck~midnight.~ ~She grew white;
6 IX  |          her teeth chattered; she struck her hands~together and leapt
7 IX  |          Duke flung up his hands, struck them together in despair,
8 X   |         doorstep until the clocks struck eight. ~The last stroke
9 X   | immediately behind him. The~clock struck three just as the two men