" "Then I think we ought to have the Prize for Promptness," said Elsie, as she took off her wraps.

I had picked out one of the least valuable engraved stones, and had taken it to a lapidary, who readily bought it at his own valuation, and paid me with great promptness; but after he had secured it he asked me so many questions about it, particularly how I had come into possession of it, that I was very sure that he had made a wonderful bargain, and was also convinced that it would not do for me to take any more of my gems to him.

There were the petty tradesmen who in former years had prospered through George Henry's patronage, whose large bills had been paid with unquestioning promptness until came the slip of his cog in the money-distributing machine.

The wager was taken with great promptness, and then the patient was loaded into a cab and sent off with the black prize-fighter.

That corpulent young gentleman assented with great promptness.

His partner supplied this information with admirable promptness.

Suddenness rather than promptness has always marked his decisions.

HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THAT PREGNANCY MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM HIS CHILDHOOD: BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOR

Nor would he waste time by idle negotiations; it was necessary to act with promptness and vigor.

The thought that I might not do so was, strangely enough, an unpleasant one, and I put it from me with all promptness.

"His stay, being very likely to be short, many successively sought audience of him, whose affairs he despatched with his usual promptness.

General Lee's aim was to pass around the right flank of his adversary, and bring him to battle; and, although the promptness of General Meade's movements defeated the last-named object nearly completely, the manoeuvres of the two armies form a highly-interesting study.

In spite, however, of his excellent soldiership and habitual promptness, Hill did not arrive in time.

We have spoken of the promptness with which the movement was made, and it may almost be said that General Meade had scarcely broken up his camps north of the Rapidan, when Lee was in motion to go and meet him.

All that defeated it was the extreme promptness of Lee, the excellent choice of position, and the beginning of that great system of impromptu breastworks which afterward became so powerful an engine against General Grant. VI. LEE IN THE AUTUMN AND WINTER OF 1863.

Those who were present in the Southern army at this time will bear record to the soldierly promptness of officers and men.

This distinguished commander of General Lee's cavalry had been directed to pursue General Sheridan; had done so, with his customary promptness, and intercepted his column near Richmond, at a spot known as the Yellow Tavern; and here, in a stubborn engagement, in which Stuart strove to supply his want of troops by the fury of his attack, the great chief of cavalry was mortally wounded, and expired soon afterward.

This St. Austin acknowledgeth of himself in his humble confessions, "promptness of wit, memory, eloquence, they were God's good gifts, but he did not use them to his glory."

To give to any form of courage an available or working value, it is essential that it have two qualities, promptness and persistency.

It's a pity, thoughisn't it?that all your promptness went for nothing.

As file closers it is their duty to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.

"We'll dissolve the Union!" unless the freedom of speech and the press be put down in the North!!With the promptness of commission-merchants, the alternative is adopted.

We recognized at once that the field was properly his preserve and that we really had no right there; but we trusted that our intrusion in coming in would be atoned for by our promptness in getting out.

But we are not always able to seek his welfare with promptness and activity (owing to our dependence on Dhritarashtra)!

The alacrity and promptness with which our volunteer forces rushed to the field on their country's call prove not only their patriotism, but their deep conviction that our cause is just.