Chapter

 1 I    |           this place, and at this hour, such a cry was so frightfully
 2 II   |           his imagination: for an hour of recklessness might suffice
 3 II   |          with all monomaniacs; an hour comes in which the strange
 4 III  |    delight. After a quarter of an hour of this strange exercise,
 5 IV   |         will rain in less than an hour.”~“A few drops are falling
 6 IV   |        impression. Thus, after an hour’s labor, Lecoq possessed
 7 V    |         it was not until after an hour of earnest work that, in
 8 V    |             that this morning, an hour or so ago, while I was waiting
 9 VI   |          unpleasant quarter of an hour at the prefecture when he
10 VII  |         pass here in less than an hour; we will throw them in,
11 VII  |        when he got sober, half an hour afterward. I never saw a
12 VII  | attendants, who were awaiting the hour for entering upon their
13 VII  |         expected that at least an hour would elapse before he reappeared.
14 VIII |         characters, alone at that hour and in that part of the
15 VIII |         ring at such an unearthly hour for fear of disturbing you.
16 VIII |     saying: “Nine o’clock—I am an hour behind time already: still
17 VIII |           added: “We have been an hour and forty minutes, my good
18 IX   |          The news only arrived an hour ago; but all the urgent
19 IX   |       been upstairs about half an hour, when I heard some one below
20 IX   |       been upstairs about half an hour, when I heard some one below
21 X    |       hold your peace! Now is the hour, now is the moment, ladies
22 XI   |         best it can. For the past hour M. Segmuller had not been
23 XIV  |         You shall know in half an hour,” replied the young detective,
24 XVI  |        his legs again at an early hour in the morning. By eight
25 XVI  |         less than a quarter of an hour Polyte entered the room.
26 XVII |         at least a dozen times an hour, just as a snuff-taker continually
27 XVII |        earring!”~For more than an hour, standing under a neighbor’
28 XVII |         next morning, at an early hour, he resumed his investigations
29 XVIII|  momentous they may appear at the hour of their occurrence. It
30 XVIII|         fine morning, just at the hour when May was taking his
31 XVIII|     volume of Beranger and for an hour or more seemed completely
32 XVIII|        hearing the bell sound the hour of breakfast, eleven o’clock,
33 XVIII|         Less than a quarter of an hour afterward he returned, carrying
34 XIX  |          second affront within an hour. The prisoner had first
35 XIX  |         talk with you for half an hour without being recognized.”~
36 XIX  |         Less than a quarter of an hour afterward M. Segmuller,
37 XX   |       Quai de l’Horloge until the hour of returning to Mazas. It
38 XX   |         more than a quarter of an hour. When it reappeared, the
39 XX   |         failure. Hence, from this hour, the prisoner is left to
40 XX   |         less than a quarter of an hour. Hence, Lecoq’s sojourn
41 XX   |          of the fugitive? Half an hour, perhaps! And he had accomplished
42 XX   |         less than a quarter of an hour.”~“Do you know whether Madame
43 XXI  |    remained here for more than an hour, drinking together; and
44 XXIV |          day; and a quarter of an hour later he pretended to fall