eight o'clock precisely
Took from Douchak the body of the great mandarin Yen Lou coming from Persia to Pekin . '' It cost a good deal , did this telegram , but you will admit it was well worth its price . The name of Yen Lou was immediately communicated to our fellow travelers , and it seemed to me that my lord Faruskiar smiled when he heard it . We left the station at eight o'clock precisely . Forty minutes afterwards we passed near old Merv , and the night being dark I could see nothing of it . There was , however , a fortress with square towers and a wall of some burned bricks , and ruined tombs , and a palace and remains of mosques , and a collection of archaeological things , which would have run to quite two hundred lines of small text . `` Console yourself , '' said Major Noltitz .