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Why, the funeral is to be this week a grand funeral and I have to order it all. Then there are relatives to be invited thirty letters others to be asked to the reading of the will. It will be one hurry-scurry till we get the house clear of the corpse and the vultures; then at it I must go, head-foremost, into fathomless addition subtraction multiplication, and vexation.
That sometimes he has been seen surrounded by a crew of little imps in broad breeches and short doublets; tumbling head-over-heels in the rack and mist, and playing a thousand gambols in the air; or buzzing like a swarm of flies about Antony's Nose; and that, at such times, the hurry-scurry of the storm was always greatest.
In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop, the noise behind him only frightened the coward more; and away he went, helter-skelter, hurry-scurry, over hill and dale, till he was nearly dead with fatigue, and the jackal was quite dead from bumps and bruises. Moral Don't tie your tail to a coward's.
But Pao-yue apprehended, in the first place, that his grandmother Chia, would be solicitous on his account, and longed, in the second, to be with Lin Tai-yue, so he hurriedly asked for some tea to rinse his mouth with. "Cousin Secundus," T'an Ch'un and Hsi Ch'un interposed with an ironic laugh, "what's the use of the hurry-scurry you're in the whole day long!
This usually occasioned a stormy scene before they left the coasting-ground; for everybody wished to go down "once more," and then "just once more," and then "one single turn more," so that everybody hurried and jumped onto the sleds, and flew down and ran up again in a regular hurry-scurry.
Ah, truly, the heart is an unruly pupil. It is ever rebellious against the teaching of the stern monitress Duty." Phillip Lawson heaved a sigh and then continued: "Whatever the future will bring God only knows; whatever is is all for the best." But of the incoming morn. An unusual babble and hurry-scurry time was going on long ere Herbert Rutherford had thought fit to arouse his friend.
Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim, "Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang!"
Lady Feng and Li Wan then took hurry-scurry something to eat as a matter of form; but lady Feng came down once more to look after things. After a time, she stepped out on the verandah where Yuean Yang and the other girls were having their refreshments in high glee. As soon as they caught sight of her, Yuan Yang and her companions stood up.
Out went the candles the curtains flapped high in air, and lashed the ceiling the door banged with a hideous crash papers, and who knows what beside, went spinning, hurry-scurry round the room; and Toole's wig was very near taking wing from his head. 'Hey hey hey! holloo! cried the doctor, out of breath, and with his artificial ringlets frisking about his chops and eyes.
All the sounds of the hotel were now becoming audible again the coughs, the sighs, the indistinct voices, the continual slamming of doors, the creaking of the floors beneath the great accumulation of travellers, and all the stir in the passages, along which flying skirts were sweeping, and families galloping distractedly amidst the hurry-scurry of departure.
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