rapidest

Updated: May 1, 2025

And if a storm comes on, they will take refuge in the porticoes beneath; not without wine and cakes, for what they have come to see will last for many an hour, and they intend to feast their eyes and ears from sunrise to sunset. What an audience! the rapidest, subtlest, wittiest, down to the very cobblers and tinkers, the world has ever seen.

Charles Kingsley - Literary and General Lectures and Essays