Chapter

 1 III   |        questions. What pleasant hours we have spent in study;
 2 III   |          Then, when our leisure hours came, we used to go out
 3 V     |      the secret.~For three long hours my uncle worked on without
 4 V     |  incident which turned up a few hours after.~When our good Martha
 5 V     |    minerals, he was forty-eight hours without eating, and all
 6 VIII  |      the monotony; for in three hours we stopped at Kiel, close
 7 VIII  |        plain of Holstein.~Three hours’ travelling brought us to
 8 IX    | surf-beaten coasts.~Forty-eight hours after, coming out of a storm
 9 IX    |     came on board, and in three hours the Valkyria dropped her
10 IX    |      very first night.~In three hours I had seen not only the
11 XI    |       earth, Axel.”~Forty-eight hours were left before our departure;
12 XII   |         frightful chaos.~In two hours from Rejkiavik we arrived
13 XII   |      and went on his way.~Three hours later, still treading on
14 XIII  |      conquer.” After about four hours’ walking the horses stopped
15 XV    |       out, quite useless.~Three hours’ fatiguing march had only
16 XV    |          and yet how many weary hours it took to reach it! The
17 XV    |     remaining feet took us five hours to clear; the circuitous
18 XVII  |  descent went on.~Another three hours, and I saw no bottom to
19 XVII  |     easy that we had been seven hours, plus fourteen quarters
20 XVII  |    quarters of rest, making ten hours and a half. We had started
21 XVIII |  thermometer with surprise. Two hours after our departure it only
22 XVIII |   reasoning. A descent of seven hours consecutively is not made
23 XIX   |     replied.~“What! after three hours’ walk over such easy ground.”~“
24 XX    |       of the gallery.~After ten hours’ walking I observed a singular
25 XXI   | directly downward, and in a few hours it will bring us to the
26 XXI   |          You have now but a few hours to tempt fortune. Let us
27 XXII  |         my granite couch.~A few hours passed away. A deep silence
28 XXV   |        the Professor gave a few hours to the arrangement of his
29 XXVII |         After the lapse of some hours, no doubt exhausted, I fell
30 XXXII |   thirty leagues in twenty-four hours, and we shall soon come
31 XXXII |        the end of them, and for hours my patience was vying with
32 XXXII |        it into the sea. For two hours nothing was caught. Are
33 XXXII |        for in another couple of hours we took a large quantity
34 XXXIII|       calmed down after several hours’ sleep.~Monday, August 17. —
35 XXXIII|   During his watch I slept.~Two hours afterwards a terrible shock
36 XXXIII|     intense fear.~One hour, two hours, pass away. The struggle
37 XXXIV |       its farthest limit.~Three hours pass away. The roarings
38 XXXVI |      leagues in the twenty-four hours.”~“That is right; and this
39 XL    |    course. At last, after three hours’ sailing, about six in the
40 XL    |   resigned and to wait six long hours.~
41 XLI   |       An hour passed away — two hours, perhaps — I cannot tell.
42 XLI   |        human power could check.~Hours passed away. No change in
43 XLII  |         after the din which for hours had stunned me. At last
44 XLII  |  prolong our existence by a few hours. But we shall be reduced
45 XLIII |      place during the following hours. I have a confused impression
46 XLIV  |      thirst. Happily, after two hours’ walking, a charming country
47 XLV   |       After waiting forty-eight hours, on the 31 st of August,