Chapter

1 3 |    country folk.”~At half past eight our carriage drew up before
2 4 |        start was to be made at eight o’clock in the morning;
3 4 |        were dispatched between eight o’clock and twenty minutes
4 8 |    territory are not less than eight hundred miles apart. Even
5 11|        watch, it was half-past eight. “It is time, Wells.”~“When
6 13| scarcely be more than seven or eight hours since the moment when
7 17|       eye of Robur when toward eight o’clock he came on deck