eight
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Then , the lump in his throat melted and ran out at his eyes , and all doubt vanished like a mist before the sun . But he never knew that he had wept . His wife did , and that was enough . The next morning , for the first time in his life , he lost the eight o'clock omnibus . The following Monday morning she brought her week 's account to him . He turned from it testily , but she insisted on his going over it . There was not the mistake of a halfpenny .