The old-fashioned and apparently absurd practice of rubbing the stye with a ring, is as good and speedy a cure as that by any process of medicinal application; though the number of times it is rubbed, or the quality of the ring and direction of the strokes, has nothing to do with its success.

This meant, as I interpret it, that she regarded so speedy a departure to be with Christ as something too good to be true.

Besides, how convenient for him, and how speedy a release from all responsibility about her!

16. yield as speedy a remedy as any other physic whatsoever.