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And he asked forgiveness also, for there had been a deadly feud concerning this between him and my people, so that but for Eadmund the King there would have been fighting. Yet when one told Ulfkytel that men held that my father's heart broke at my loss, the great earl had made haste to come and see him, and to say these things. So they made peace at last.
But, however this may be, and wherever you may think yourselves bound in justice to impute the greater sin, be assured that the question is one of responsibilities only, not of facts. The definite result of all our modern haste to be rich is assuredly, and constantly, the murder of a certain number of persons by our hands every year.
His steadfast look was now divided between her and Clennam, and he began to shake as if he were very cold. Explaining to Little Dorrit that he would run to the coffee-house for a bottle of wine, Arthur fetched it with all the haste he could use.
To be regarded as a Candidatus Theologiae, overtaken with drink on Ascension-day! The thought was intolerable. He was just about turning up the Poplar Alley, by the Kosel Garden, when a voice behind him called out: "Herr Anselmus! Herr Anselmus! for the love of Heaven, whither are you running in such haste?"
Perhaps a man might make a square foot, by a week of close application; but "how much" mattered nothing it was "how well" that counted. Haste is disassociable from labour of our day; we might produce or reproduce tapestries as good as the old, but some one is in haste for the hanging, and excellency goes by the board.
"Very well; if you will get it, we can make a beginning now." Frank went in search of the musket; but in his haste tumbled down the attic stairs, losing his grasp of the musket, which fell down with a clatter. Mrs. Frost, opening the door of her bedroom in alarm, saw Frank on his back with the musket lying across his chest. "What's the matter?" she asked, not a little startled.
I have no middle state between clamour and silence, between general conversation and self-tormenting solitude. Levett is dead, and poor Williams is making haste to die. Piozzi Letters, ii.301. 'Aug. 20. This has been a day of great emotion; the office of the Communion of the Sick has been performed in poor Mrs. Williams's chamber. Ib. 'Sept. 22.
"The dead-house they reach'd, where his lordship they found, Pale, stretch'd on a plank, like themselves out of breath, The coroner and jury were seated around, Most gravely enquiring the cause of his death. No haste did they seem in, their task to complete, Aware that from hurry mistakes often rise; Or wishful, perhaps, of prolonging the treat Of thus sitting in judgment upon my Lord 'Size.
With every appearance of haste Mark rushed from the apartment, following Tony. The latter led the way to the engine room. "Can anything be done?" he asked. Mark took a survey of the machinery. "It is too late," he said as though much excited. "The ship is falling down toward the sea with terrific force." It needed but a glance at the height gage to show this.
Indeed, he is running away whilst he is there, and naturally makes haste to escape, as from a place where he cannot stand firm, and where he is afraid of sinking. Man is wholly and throughout but patch and motley.
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