about four in the morning
`` By Heaven , I 'll do it yet ! '' cried Anerley , and staggering to a packing-case , he began the dictation of his famous despatch . And so it came about that the _ Gazette _ had a long column , with headlines like an epitaph , when the sheets of the _ Intelligence _ and the _ Courier _ were as blank as the faces of their editors . And so , too , it happened that when two weary men , upon two foundered horses , arrived about four in the morning at the Sarras post-office , they looked at each other in silence and departed noiselessly , with the conviction that there are some situations with which the English language is not capable of dealing . The New Catacomb `` Look here , Burger , '' said Kennedy , `` I do wish that you would confide in me . '' The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedy 's comfortable room overlooking the Corso . The night was cold , and they had both pulled up their chairs to the unsatisfactory Italian stove which threw out a zone of stuffiness rather than of warmth .