After the most torturing suspense, the dial at length showed me that the two hours had elapsed, and I hastened to the cell.

Hastened by a flaw of wind that veered from the normal direction of the breeze the stranger made sharply to windward, as if to obey.

Carter hastened forward and returned to report.

"It iss not for you to carry!" He hastened up the gangplank, clutching the chest close.

Strong blew the wind; the cloud Hastened away.

He gave Olympia one pathetic glance, and, without a word, hastened from the room.

And he hastened to comply.

" The words had no sooner escaped my lips than I regretted having spoken, and without delay I hastened to make amends by explaining that I was in truth frightened at the idea of venturing into that nest of snakes from which we had once barely gotten away with our lives.

"Yan Yost was summarily condemned to death, and his brother and gipsy-like mother, in wild alarm, hastened to the camp to plead for his life.

"Jest a minute," she murmured, as Abe would have hastened on to the gate.

So with Machiavellian skill he hastened on with his gossip. "Yop, an' they only riz one hundred dollars an' two centsone hundred dollars an' a postage-stamp.

" "I'll do my best," Abe hastened to assure her.

"And I shook off the dust from my feet, and hastened to my dwelling.

" As soon as King Cais had regained his tents he hastened to tell his slaves to begin the training of his horses, and to pay especial attention to Dahir.

All the enraged tribesmen hastened to seek Hadifah.

Accordingly Nana hastened back to Cawnpore and scattered wealth with a lavish hand; and sought to hide his fears by boastful proclamations, and to drown his anxieties in drink and debauchery.

Cavour, who had devoted all his marvellous talents to realizing the ideal of national redemption and had believed his ends so nearly attained, hastened to his Prince, and, in a melancholy interview, advised him not to accept such conditions.

I hastened to put in practice my method.

" The decay of her bodily powers was hastened by the breaking of a blood-vessel in November, 1790.

The trip determined on, preparations were hastened.

" "Oh, yes, I can well believe that, Mr. Farwell," Miss Morel hastened to say.

It was too late to retreat, however, and, first folding Eve in her arms, and kissing her cold forehead, she hastened to repair a part, at least, of the mischief she had done.

The style of announcement caused some confusion at first, to the Briton, who, however, hastened to conceal his emotion under an air of good-will and joyousness, to impose upon his comrades.

At the same time Count Eudes, the gallant defender of Paris, was elected King at Compiègne, and crowned by the archbishop of Sens. Guy, Duke of Spoleto, descended from Charlemagne in the female line, hastened to France and was declared king at Langres by the bishop of that town, but returned with precipitation to Italy, seeing no chance of maintaining himself in his French kingship.

He hastened to Paris, was appointed, and lived, in spite of the most erratic of existences, to the ripe old age of 78, working up to the last minute.