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 1    1,    6|       quickly. It is thirty-six hours since I have had anything
 2    1,    6|       eat, or rather thirty-six hours that I have been asleep—
 3    1,    7|       been traveling for thirty hours. So I tucked myself in,
 4    1,    7|      assure you, for thirty-six hours.”~Paganel’s listeners understood
 5    1,    8|      would not see it then, two hours later he was forced to yield
 6    1,    9| syllables.~He spent his leisure hours in teaching young Robert,
 7    1,    9|         the first three or four hours—that is to say, for about
 8    1,    9|        scarcely take thirty-six hours to go through them, and
 9    1,    9|       came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
10    1,   11|       ease ten leagues in eight hours.~There are no inns along
11    1,   12|    toilsome work, but after two hoursexertion, and a great deal
12    1,   12|    cover us. All I ask is a two hourslonger march.”~“Are you
13    1,   13|      slumbered heavily for some hours.~All of a sudden a violent
14    1,   14|         bleeding. For many long hours these brave fellows continued
15    1,   15|         soon evident that a few hoursrest would set him all
16    1,   18|        reached the RIO in a few hours, but Thalcave would not
17    1,   18|        would spare them several hourssuffering and anxiety.”~“
18    1,   19|       and you are right. In two hours daybreak will come, and
19    1,   22|       at their feet. Before two hours the cataracts of the sky
20    1,   23|        gone down in twenty-four hours,” said Glenarvan.~“Or that
21    1,   26|         RETURN ON BOARD~FOR two hours the OMBU navigated the immense
22    1,   26|       at a pinch. In thirty-six hours they might reach the shores
23    1,   26|         be there in a couple of hours,” replied the Major.~Two
24    1,   26|          replied the Major.~Two hours! But it was impossible for
25    2,    2| slackened a little.~Twenty-four hours after, at break of day,
26    2,    2|     That’s it, precisely.”~Some hours later, the sharp, lofty
27    2,    2|      the entire island in a few hours, but without coming across
28    2,    4|    hundred miles in twenty-four hours.”~“Would that be an extraordinary
29    2,    6|        low water. After so many hours of danger, the DUNCAN found
30    2,    6|      the Australian shores.~Two hours afterward Cape Catastrophe
31    2,   10|         only could hold out for hours and days, but for weeks.
32    2,   10|       and back?”~“About fifteen hours,” replied Ayrton, “but not
33    2,   11|     work without answering. Two hours more and the damage the
34    2,   11|         be worked. It was three hours before the authorities from
35    2,   14|      the station. It was twelve hoursdelay, but also twelve
36    2,   14|          delay, but also twelve hoursrest, and both horses and
37    2,   14|    through the bushes. For four hours the hunting party wandered
38    2,   15|      barrier within forty-eight hours more. The difficulty of
39    2,   16|       get to the bay and twenty hours to get back to the camp,
40    2,   18|    Twofold Bay, and twenty-four hours after her crew would reach
41    2,   19|        During these long wasted hours, Lady Helena, under the
42    2,   19|       New South Wales.~For some hours, a fine but penetrating
43    2,   19|      the DUNCAN. In twenty-four hours they would reach the bay.~
44    3,    4|   lights of Auckland thirty-six hours ago.”~Glenarvan made no
45    3,    4|       nor he left the poop. Two hours after a stiff breeze came
46    3,    4|       to its smallest size.~Two hours passed; the sea was rising.
47    3,    4|     hull would be safe for some hours yet. At daybreak John examined
48    3,    4|      the brig insured them some hours of repose. Glenarvan, John,
49    3,    6|      have accomplished in three hours. But with a raft allowance
50    3,    6|       gradually, and it was two hours before they reached the
51    3,    7|       doomed to disappointment. Hours passed without any abatement
52    3,    7|        scene, a delay of twelve hours was not so much consequence,
53    3,    7|      the fighting lasted twelve hours before the Maories yielded
54    3,    8|   Auckland twice a month, eight hours would be sufficient.~“Therefore,”
55    3,    8|      march along the river.~Two hours later, the first shades
56    3,   11|         three times twenty-four hours, the corpse remains unburied.
57    3,   12| acknowledge that it was so.~The hours of this night, wretched
58    3,   14|      party inwardly counted the hours. All was made ready for
59    3,   15|        deepest gloom.~For three hours they walked on without halting
60    3,   15|     made twelve miles in twelve hours. The courageous women could
61    3,   17|     convict leader for two long hours. Glenarvan in a state of
62    3,   20|     shores of the island.~A few hours sufficed to explore the
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