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 1        I|          of Sairmeuse.~ ~The two hours which the women consecrated
 2        I|         be here in less than two hours.”~ ~“How do you know?”~ ~“
 3        V|         to her were her happiest hours.~ ~And when, in the evening,
 4        V|          spite of this fact, the hours were rolling by, and Maurice
 5     VIII|        he had passed twenty-four hours without eating.~ ~When eleven
 6       IX|         I promised him, only two hours ago, that I would never
 7        X|      authorization, Martial, two hours later, started on his mission.~ ~
 8      XIV|         he not longed only a few hours before to find some way
 9      XIV|    returning to the chateau some hours later he reproached his
10     XVII|        remain there three mortal hours—all the time that was required
11    XVIII|     moments sooner.~ ~Three long hours passed before the baron
12    XVIII|          night, and then only at hours that have been agreed upon
13      XIX|         In less than forty-eight hours the engagement was made
14       XX|         preparing for their last hours a chorus of benedictions
15       XX|      Sairmeuse and return in two hours.”~ ~Chupin endeavored to
16     XXII|          at the Croix d’Arcy two hours before. But he had shared
17     XXII|      insulting patronage!”~ ~The hours were flying by. This incident
18     XXIV|         He returned in about two hours, pale, frightened, and in
19      XXV|       they had been enduring for hours?~ ~Maurice had reached the
20      XXV|         a good horse, and in two hours——”~ ~A glance and a nudge
21    XXVII|      four days, even twenty-four hours. Futile efforts! The president’
22   XXVIII|          executed in twenty-four hours.”~ ~“Well?”~ ~“It requires
23   XXVIII|       insolent and defiant a few hours before, so overcome that
24   XXVIII|       you once more. Now that my hours are numbered, I may reveal
25     XXIX|          return in less than two hours, and then we can decide
26      XXX|           The next day— in a few hours—at dawn, perhaps, they would
27     XXXI|         eaten nothing for thirty hours, and he felt terribly weak
28     XXXI|          not tell.~ ~But several hours after, as he traversed the
29     XXXI|         same evening, after nine hours of travelling on the mountains,
30     XXXI|   excitement, he walked for long hours. He soon lost his way, and
31     XXXI| following the bandit for sixteen hours.”~ ~He spoke with extraordinary
32    XXXIV|         father-in-law only a few hours.~ ~“Very well! I comprehend!”
33     XXXV|       had happened three or four hours previous arose in his mind.~ ~“
34     XXXV|     cautious when, after a three hours’ march, they came in sight
35    XXXVI|          hoped, that twenty-four hours of rest would restore Marie-Anne.~ ~
36       XL|     CHAPTER XL~ ~The twenty-four hours which Blanche had spent
37      XLI|            It had not been three hours since Maurice, Jean Lacheneur
38      XLI|       them. He had met them five hours afterward, harassed and
39     XLII|         you everywhere for three hours. Your father, monsieur le
40     XLII|         to sleep for a couple of hours, in an armchair in the sick-room.~ ~
41     XLIV|        for years, grant me a few hours. It is so long since we
42     XLIV|         rejoined him twenty-four hours later.~ ~“Monsieur d’Escorval
43      XLV|    mantel.~ ~“I have still three hours before me,” said she; “more
44      XLV|          if necessary.~ ~For two hours and a half Marie-Anne would
45     XLVI|         executory in twenty-four hours.~ ~“So you refuse to tell
46    XLVII|         which he had given a few hours before, to warn Marie-Anne
47    XLVII|          rest of at least twelve hours. We reckoned without our
48    XLVII|         they also granted us two hours of exercise each day in
49   XLVIII|  suffered agony during the three hours that I spent in waiting
50   XLVIII|  Marie-Anne.~ ~How many pleasant hours they had passed together
51     XLIX|         talking, and after a two hours’ conversation, he arrived
52        L|          listener.~ ~Twenty-four hours earlier she would not have
53       LI|          reappeared in about two hours, pleased and radiant.~ ~“
54      LII|        departed from Paris a few hours later, and Blanche was left
55      LII|          He came and went at all hours, morning, noon, and night,
56      LIV|        eye he was bound; and two hours later he was an inmate of
57       LV|         present, at least. A few hours before, on his way from