1 I had had no sleep for forty-eight hours.
2 The last twenty-four hours have witnessed a carnival of brutality.
3 My brother got me inside forty-eight hours, and through no fault of mine.
4 At the end of two hours Thomas Mugridge put away knife and stone and held out his hand.
5 "But that is equivalent to one hundred and forty-four miles in twenty-four hours," I added reassuringly.
6 The high wind blew from the north-west for twenty-four hours, when it fell calm, and in the night sprang up from the south-west.
7 I knew the kind, so thick and so close of texture that it could resist the rain and not be soaked through after hours of wetting.
8 Least of all things was I a mechanic, and in that time I accomplished what an ordinary machinist would have done in as many hours.
9 He had reasoned himself into a spell of the blues, and within few hours one could look for the devil within him to be up and stirring.
10 It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move.
11 Then speech would suddenly desert him, in the middle of a sentence perhaps, and for hours, sometimes, we would wait for the connection to be re-established.
12 We talked for hours over single stanzas, and I found him reading into them a wail of regret and a rebellion which, for the life of me, I could not discover myself.
13 At a calculation of a two-mile drift per hour, during the seventy and odd hours of the storm, we had been driven at least one hundred and fifty miles to the north-east.
14 And for two hours we sat there, face to face, whet, whet, whet, till the news of it spread abroad and half the ship's company was crowding the galley doors to see the sight.
15 It was well I did, for it covered the boat fully a third of the way aft, and three times, in the next several hours, it flung off the bulk of the down-rushing water when the bow shoved under the seas.
16 Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.
17 I, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon a course of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined, never had more incident and excitement crammed into any forty hours of my experience.
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