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"It's a relief, sometimes, to know you can relax and let your whole weight absolutely down on to the broad earth!" he declared. "Mrs. Eversley?" suggested Aunt Bell. "Well, the short of it is, she told me her woes and begged me to give my sanction to her securing a divorce!" Nancy sat up from her pillows. "Oh and you did?" "Nancy!" It was low, but clear, quick-spoken, stern, and hurt.
There was the quick-spoken son of the Emerald Isle, with his pledge suspended from his neck; there, too, the Scot, speaking his broad dialect; also the representatives from the provincial towns of England and Wales, who seemed to speak anything but good English.
He grew suddenly quick-spoken he broke into a volley of accusation; his tongue lent itself to such a rush of vileness that Gloria, shrinking back, covered her ears with her hands. "Gratton stole grub. When grub-stealing was the same as slitting a man's throat. And what next does he plan?
"And your warm friend, I believe?" "Yes, and well worthy our friendship. Somewhat high-tempered and quick-spoken, but with a heart like your brother's, Miss Weems, as generous and frank as a summer day." "I do not think him high-tempered beyond the requisites of manhood," she replied, with something like asperity in her tone.
A quick-spoken man this, with a little square mouth, a soft heart, a keen sense of humour. "Why have you got me from my bed, malcontent?" he asked. "Because there are some out there that want your prayers," replied Belfort, jerking his head towards the sea. He was an unbeliever, this maimed sailor, who read the Petit Journal, and talked too loudly in the Cafe de la Marine of an evening.
His voice trembled passionately now with excitement, if not with love but it was the same to Beatrice, who heard the quick-spoken words that followed, and drank them in as a thirsty man swallows the first draught of wine he can lay hands on, be it ever so acid. At the first moment she had been startled and had almost uttered a short cry, half of delight and half of fear.
"Sure, I know it," replied the squatter, in quick-spoken sympathy. "Only ma and me thought as how ye ought to know the things we heard." Tess was standing rigid, gazing stormily defiant into the weather-beaten old face. Wasn't she going to be married to the student that night! And how many, many times Frederick had told her he loved but her; that no other woman could ever take her place!
It was so sudden that for a moment Dexie was powerless to move, but she freed herself quickly, saying, as she stepped back: "How dare you! How dare you touch me! It is I; not Gussie," she added, thinking he might have mistaken the person, though his words belied the thought. "I was watching for the expressman, and did not notice you had come in; you made a mistake," came the quick-spoken words.
"I've nearly finished," answered the boy, "I'll be done in a quarter of an hour anyway." Accordingly, a little later, Hamilton found his way to another part of the building, where he met his new superior, a small, alert, nervous, quick-spoken man, who, as Hamilton afterwards found out, had the capacity of working at lightning speed, and then stopping and wanting to talk at intervals.
"Where is your brother?" he said, turning to Dorothy. He was evidently rather afraid of Mrs. Vansittart, as a quick-spoken person not likely to have patience with a slow man. "He has gone to Utrecht," answered Dorothy. "And Mr. von Holzen is not at the works, which are locked up. I have just come from there. By a lucky chance I met this man Ben, and have brought him here."
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