Chapter

 1        I|       eight thousand souls, about four leagues distant.~ ~“And
 2        I|         old post-chaise, drawn by four horses, dashed through the
 3        I|        children together, and the four surrounded the carriage,
 4      III|           apron, bearing three or four covered dishes in his hands.~ ~
 5      XVI|          upon her garden three or four basketfuls of richer soil,
 6      XIX|         March, at about half-past four o’clock, that M. d’Escorval
 7     XXII|           minutes; he was delayed four times as long in Sairmeuse.
 8     XXII|    terrible fusillade.~ ~Three or four peasants fall, mortally
 9    XXIII|        strange thing happened. Of four hundred shots, fired into
10     XXIV|          many servants?”~ ~“Seven—four men and three women.”~ ~“
11    XXVII|           a week for preparation, four days, even twenty-four hours.
12   XXVIII|          At last, a little before four o’clock, the abbe came in,
13   XXVIII|             Well?”~ ~“It requires four days to make the journey
14     XXIX|        Duc de Sairmeuse, three or four valets stood talking.~ ~“
15     XXIX|      confide?”~ ~“I have three or four spies—they can be bought.”~ ~“
16      XXX| interruption, and a little before four o’clock everything was ready.
17      XXX|   Marie-Anne, Abbe Midon, and the four retired army officers.~ ~
18      XXX|       quite plainly.~ ~Soon after four o’clock sounded they saw
19   XXXIII|         abbe and Maurice, and the four officers?~ ~There were,
20     XXXV|        what had happened three or four hours previous arose in
21  XXXVIII|         of Lacheneur’s house. The four walls remained standing,
22     XLVI|           and, plunging his knife four times into the old poacher’
23    XLVII|          of his: ‘It will require four days to obtain our extradition,
24     LIII|         if they only had three or four hundred francs——~ ~Mme.
25     LIII|     Montaignac, Blanche knew only four who were still alive.~ ~
26     LIII|      to-morrow between twelve and four o’clock. It is on business~
27      LIV|           did not hesitate.~ ~For four years the Duc de Sairmeuse
28      LIV|         secrets from him.~ ~About four o’clock his faithful valet
29       LV|   persistently repeating three or four German words to a starling,