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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Your private ghost is making himself comfortable over yonder at the Haunted House. I saw the reek of his four-hours fire coming up blue out of the chimbly-top as we drove past!" It was thus that the most notable news of a decade came to Eden Valley.
The meal which our ancestors called "four-hours" answered to our tea; but tea had not yet been introduced into England, though it was very soon to be so. They drank, therefore, either milk, or weak home-brewed ale. "With all my heart," was the reply, "if I'm not in your way, Jenny. You are washing, I see."
I may speak my pleasure if I would have to my four-hours macaroons or gingerbread? and be duly thankful that this liberty and these delicates are granted me! Avena Foljambe, all your folly lieth not in your legs." Lady Foljambe evidently did not appreciate this pun upon her surname. "Dame!" she said, severely. "Well? I can fare forth, if you have not had enough.
No sooner did the latter perceive him, than he kissed his hand to him, and in dumb-show gave him to understand in what a blessed state he was. Philip thought: 'T is a pity I am not to be prince all my life-time. The people would be satisfied then; to be a prince is the easiest thing in the world. He can do more with a single word than a lawyer with a four-hours' speech.
Still, I always fancied that Leila might not think her case was closed, and so I chose to think that ours wasn't either. Let me go on thinking so, at any rate, till you've seen her, and confirmed with your own eyes what Susy Suffern tells you." All through what Susy Suffern told and retold her during their four-hours' flight to the hills this plea of Ide's kept coming back to Mrs. Lidcote.
The guests being now come, Agnes dished up the four-hours if that can be called dishing up when there were no dishes! She lifted a great pan off the hook where it hung over the fire for it must be remembered there were no bars, and pans had to be hung over the fire by a handle like that of a kettle and poured out into the bowl a quantity of soup.
"Ah! I'm not so sure of that, Jenny," answered Millicent. "Well, I'm nowise afeard of changes," said Jenny, in the same bright tone. "The Lord means His people good by all the changes He sends. Mrs Millicent, won't you tarry a while and sup your four-hours with us?"
"Why, Avice, where hast thou been?" says the elder of the two women. "I was coming, Grandmother," explains little Avice, "and Father Thomas called me, and bade me tell you that the holy Bishop would come to see you this afternoon, and sup his four-hours with you." Four-hours, taken as its name shows at four o'clock, was the meal which answered to our tea.
All day the wind whistled through the grasses and moaned round the corners of the life-saving station; the gusts were cold, damp, and penetrating. With the setting of the sun there was a lull, but when the patrols started out at eight o'clock, on their four-hours' tour of duty, the wind had risen again and was blowing with renewed force.
The night was fine and clear, the `glass' was steady, and there wasn't nothin' anywheres within sight of us; so where was the danger?" "There was none, as it fortunately happened," admitted Leslie. "But who is to know what will occur within the limits of a four-hours' watch?
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