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But first he invited them to go back with him to Naxouat to receive their presents of arms, ammunition, and every thing else that they needed. They set out with alacrity. Villieu went with them, and they all arrived within a week.
The gunboat's sides were low, and it would be an easy matter to board her from craft standing as high out of the water as those junks. The men sprang to their posts with alacrity, and soon the duel was in full swing.
'That you shall have! said the old gentleman, and, taking up his forage cap as he spoke, he crammed it on his head. 'Perhaps you are too insolent, he added, 'to inform me of the time of the next London train? 'It leaves in three-quarters of an hour, returned the innkeeper with alacrity. 'You can easily catch it. Joseph's position was one of considerable weakness.
No idea could be formed of its actual distance; and the hardships and difficulties encountered by the few navigators who had sailed in that direction gave a gloomy character to the undertaking, which had hitherto deterred the most daring from embarking in it. There is no evidence that Pizarro showed any particular alacrity in the cause.
It was in reply to a salute from the Marquis de Rouaillout, and Nevil beheld his rival. 'M. le Marquis, seeing it is out of the question that we can come to you, will you come to us? cried Roland. The marquis gesticulated 'With alacrity' in every limb. 'We will bring you back on to-morrow midnight's tide, safe, we promise you. The marquis advanced a foot, and withdrew it.
The men obeyed with alacrity, and we all moved down the ravine, leading our animals. We pressed forward to the opening. A young man, the pueblo servant of Seguin, was ahead of the rest. He was impatient to reach the water. He had gained the mouth of the defile, when we saw him fall back with frightening looks, dragging at his horse and exclaiming "Mi amo! mi amo! to davia son!"
But Aratus, returning from Cenchreae to Corinth in the dusk of the evening, and setting posts of his troops in all the roads, led on the Achaeans, who followed him in such good order and with so much speed and alacrity, that they were undiscovered by Aristippus, not only whilst upon their march, but even when they got, still in the night, into Cleonae, and drew up in order of battle.
Frank, however, showed remarkable alacrity in offering himself as substitute. So zealous and obliging a brother was he that he started for the station with half an hour to spare, and whiled away a portion of that time in purchasing a bouquet of flowers and a very ornamental box of chocolates.
And so he made another low bow, and stood bareheaded, hat in hand, with his right hand on his sword hilt. 'Upon my honour, Captain Puddock, it's precisely what I was going to propose myself, Sir, said Mahony, with great alacrity; 'as the only way left us of getting honourably out of the great embarrassment in which we are placed by the premature death-struggles of your friend; for nothing, Mr.
Gretchen's twenty-ninth birthday had arrived quite too quickly the day before, and she bustled with an excess of alacrity to relieve her mind from the brooding that had occupied her for several days. She had spent the evening alone, though she knew it did her no good to seek solitude.
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