affretatevi

Updated: May 27, 2025

In the Earl's Court Road it had not been half-past, and at Barker's in High Street it was but a minute later. A long half-mile a minute, that was going like the wind, and indeed we had done much of it at a gallop. But the next hundred yards took us five minutes by the next clock, and which was one to believe? "Presto, presto," my pale guide murmured. "Affretatevi avanti!"

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman