The officer flourished his arm and
hastily rode away.
The dignity of Sophia was wounded; "Wretch (exclaimed she,
hastily replacing the Bank-note in the Drawer) how darest thou to accuse me of an Act, of which the bare idea makes me blush?" The base wretch was still unconvinced and continued to upbraid the justly-offended Sophia in such opprobious Language, that at length he so greatly provoked the gentle sweetness of her Nature, as to induce her to revenge herself on him by informing him of Janetta's Elopement, and of the active Part we had both taken in the affair.
Those who did took some time to realise all that the
hastily worded telegrams in the Sunday papers conveyed.
The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too
hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail.
"What do these kings want in my domain?" said Zarathustra in astonishment to his heart, and hid himself
hastily behind a thicket.
She took a piece of paper and a pencil, and wrote,
hastily,
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she
hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
Rather
hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away!
Once more the Baron looked slightly offended, but the Vice-Warden
hastily explained that the song had no allusion to him, and in fact had no meaning at all.
He turned and led them
hastily towards the back door.
A pair of slipshod feet shuffled,
hastily, across the bare floor of the room, as this interrogatory was put; and there issued, from a door on the right hand; first, a feeble candle: and next, the form of the same individual who has been heretofore described as labouring under the infirmity of speaking through his nose, and officiating as waiter at the public-house on Saffron Hill.
Perhaps I may venture to add that personally I find it advisable to pass
hastily over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and so gain as much time as possible for the nineteenth.