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De Stancy bowed and departed in a glow of triumph; satisfied, notwithstanding her frigidity, that he had compassed his immediate aim, which was that she might not be able to dismiss from her thoughts him and his persevering desire for the shadow of her face during the next four-and-twenty-hours. And his confidence was well founded: she could not.
We shall begin by a heavy cannonade." "To last four-and-twenty-hours," said Pélissier, "and then the assault." "At what hour?" asked Lord Raglan. "Daylight, of course!" cried two or three French generals in a breath. "One moment," interposed General Airey. "Day-break is the time of all others that the enemy would expect an attack; they would therefore be best prepared for it then."
There was little work left for Time or Calamity to do on that old face on the pillow; while even this four-and-twenty-hours of overwrought excitement had left its mark upon old Phoebe. Gwen saw that the faces were the same, past dispute, as soon as she compared them point by point. Once seen, the thing grew, and became strange and unearthly, almost a discomfort.
But in her presence he resolutely put off gloom, spoke with sanguine tongue of the prosperity he foresaw during the coming spring, and always foretold the frost must break within four-and-twenty-hours.
Elfride had never told her father of the four-and-twenty-hours' escapade with Stephen, nor had it, to her knowledge, come to his ears by any other route. It was a secret trouble and grief to the girl for a short time, and Stephen's departure was another ingredient in her sorrow. But Elfride possessed special facilities for getting rid of trouble after a decent interval.
"Much too soon! All I want is detective help of the strictly professional kind. No we'll give Mr. Pratt a little more rope yet for another four-and-twenty-hours, say. But it'll come! Now, who is the best local detective a quiet, steady fellow who knows how to do his work unobtrusively?" "Prydale's the man!" said Eldrick "Detective-Sergeant Prydale I've had reason to employ him, more than once.
Thus he walked in advance holding the two candles on high, his shadow forming a gigantic figure on the neighbouring wall, while he recited the particulars of family history pertaining to each portrait, that he had learnt up with such eager persistence during the previous four-and-twenty-hours.
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