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The patient appeared altogether more easy, the writhings subsided; presently, as if utterly exhausted, she sank off to sleep. Harold Purling had come up post-haste from Harbridge; and when the mother opened her eyes they rested upon her son. A hurried consultation passed in whispers between the two doctors. Phillipa was present; she and the maid had not left Mrs. Purling all night.
It is just such an effect that is wanting in our pictures of the Transfiguration, but I fear it is as impossible to paint it upon canvas as to describe it in words. Next morning our friend Don Guillermo said good-bye to us, and started to return post-haste to his affairs in the capital.
We all ought to feel mightily obliged to him for the check, which sent them back post-haste out of Artois, where they had already done damage enough, and might have done more had they not been so roughly handled. I wonder what the lady is here for?"
For to do anything because others do it, and not because the thing is good, or kind, or honest in its own right, is to resign all moral control and captaincy upon yourself, and go post-haste to the devil with the greater number. We smile over the ascendency of priests; but I had rather follow a priest than what they call the leaders of society.
"Thank you," I replied, and drove rapidly home again. A lengthy search followed; but after an hour of it one of those white-hot flashes of thought, such as only occur to the natural business genius, seared my mind and sent me post-haste to the bank again. "After all," I said to the cashier, "I only want to know my balance. What is it?" He withdrew and gave himself up to calculation.
He quoted in support of his petition the case of Sodom and Gomorrah those cities accursed of the Lord. Louis XIV, impressed by the truth of this comparison, sent him back a messenger post-haste authorising him to employ the suggested means.
The man dragged himself up the oozy bank, cursing roundly, and started post-haste for Efaw Kotee's bungalow. We could hear the water sloshing in his shoes, and knew that he was quite as uncomfortable in mind as in body. He did not go upon the porch, but stood below, hat in hand, calling. Then I saw the old chief the same man who had paid his supper check with a new fifty-dollar bill.
The despatches having been intrusted to him, he travelled post-haste to Delft, and, to his astonishment, the letters had hardly been delivered before he was summoned in person to the chamber of the Prince. Here was an opportunity such as he had never dared to hope for.
From that time she grew continually worse, and was never free from delirium till her death which took place less than a fortnight afterwards, to the inexpressible grief of those who knew and loved her. Letters had been written to Miss Pontifex's brothers and sisters, and one and all came post-haste to Roughborough.
If you did know how infinitely her Majesty did at my departure and before for in this matter of peace she hath specially used me this good while command me, pray me, and persuade me to further and hasten the same with all the speed possible that might be, and how, on the other side, I have continually been the man and the mean that have most plainly dehorted her from such post-haste, and that she should never make good peace without a puissant army in the field, you would then say that I had now cause to fear her displeasure for being too slow, and not too forward.
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