Fogg was, it is true,
twenty-four hours behind his time; but this could not seriously imperil the remainder of his tour.
"So," said Conseil, "we have slept
twenty-four hours?"
Leaving Joppa, the next point of interest to visit will be Alexandria, which will be reached in
twenty-four hours. The ruins of Caesar's Palace, Pompey's Pillar, Cleopatra's Needle, the Catacombs, and ruins of ancient Alexandria will be found worth the visit.
Welland began again, as she rose from the luncheon-table, and led the way into the wilderness of purple satin and malachite known as the back drawing-room, "I don't see how Ellen's to be got here tomorrow evening; and I do like to have things settled for at least
twenty-four hours ahead."
Dost thou imagine I cannot live more than
twenty-four hours on this dear pocket-book?"
Then added, by command, that at some time during the
twenty-four hours I would consummate the miracle, but would first give a brief notice; by flags on the castle towers if in the daytime, by torch-baskets in the same places if at night.
I come to beg you to leave the city for
twenty-four hours. I find Granet on the same errand."
There his chauffeur waited, untiring and sleepless, with his car always ready for that last rush to the coast, the advisability of which the Prince had considered more than once during the last
twenty-four hours. The excitement of the evening, the excitement of his unwonted outburst, was still troubling him.
So, almost every
twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place, for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, griping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way.
By his skill in necromancy he has a power of calling whom he pleases from the dead, and commanding their service for
twenty-four hours, but no longer; nor can he call the same persons up again in less than three months, except upon very extraordinary occasions.
Even I -- who have been in Spaceland, and have had the privilege of understanding for
twenty-four hours the meaning of 'height' -- even I cannot now comprehend it, nor realize it by the sense of sight or by any process of reason; I can but apprehend it by faith.
With these facts before him he did not deem it necessary that he should become feverish over the possibilities of the ensuing
twenty-four hours. He could leave much to chance.
But for this unexpected glimpse, no act of his during the next
twenty-four hours could have given me the slightest suspicion that all was not well with his nerve.
Twenty-four hours ago I would have sworn that there was no accomplice!' He left me saying he was off to Epinay."
It was the height of the summer; yet it rained for more than
twenty-four hours, and did not clear until the afternoon of the third day.