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But when reserve vessels are mobilized and sent into service for war, everything is done with the utmost haste; and the men, being hurriedly put on board, cannot possibly be as well trained and as ready to do skilful work as men sent on board in peace time; and when reserve vessels get to sea they may be required immediately to perform the most exacting service.
Mannering's town house, none too large at any time, was transformed into a little hive of industry. Two hurriedly appointed secretaries were at work in the dining-room, and Hester was busy typing in her own little sanctum. Mannering sat in his study before a table covered with papers, and for the first time during the day was alone for a few moments. His servant brought in a card.
Sunday morning, while Lois and Polly were still in bed Lois was staying with Polly at Uncle Roddy's apartment on Riverside Drive the bell rang. Mrs. Bent the housekeeper opened the door and Mrs. Farwell walked in. "Good morning," she said hurriedly and catching sight of Mr.
One day Jack and Barney, walking in Fifteenth Street, saw a stout man, with no insignia to indicate rank or station, coming out of the headquarters hurriedly. He walked to the edge of the pavement, and, looking up and down, seemed disconcerted. Noticing the two lads, he came to where Jack was standing in a preoccupied way, and the two saluted decorously.
"Endymion must take me in to dinner," she hurriedly exclaimed as she entered, and then grasped her son's arm. It seemed a happy and even a merry dinner, and yet there was something about it forced and constrained. Mrs.
She was there to ask for the health of Miss Victoria Middlemass, the daughter of a gentleman who led a country gentleman's life on the proceeds of a sleeping partnership in a mercantile house in a large town at some distance. Mrs. Middlemass came in hurriedly.
There was no difficulty in mounting him horses were loose, and scampering about the country, not yet delivered from their terrors of the last night's tempest. 'Here be we, three good men! exclaimed Guy, when they were started, and Farina had hurriedly given him the heads of his adventure with the Monk. 'Three good men!
The man sprang after him, and would have ended his life then and there, had not some of the better men in the crowd interfered in time to prevent him from carrying out his murderous intention. The excitement was intense, and another assault would probably have been made on my father, had not Rively hurriedly carried him to his home.
"It's fine, isn't it, Randal?" he said. "One gets fond of the place." He was a little ashamed to have betrayed such feeling and spoke apologetically. He went on hurriedly. "There was an old chap in Germany at Worms who was most awfully interesting.
A fear took hold of her; she called Djali, and hurriedly returned to Tostes by the highroad, threw herself into an armchair, and for the rest of the evening did not speak. But towards the end of September something extraordinary fell upon her life; she was invited by the Marquis d'Andervilliers to Vaubyessard.
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