scurriedly

Updated: May 6, 2025

'Can I have a bed, I said, 'for the night? 'Abendessen, ja! she replied. 'Will you have soup and boiled beef and vegetables? I said I would, so I sat down to wait, in the utter silence. I could scarcely hear the ice-stream, the silence seemed frozen, the house empty. The woman seemed to be flitting aimlessly, scurriedly, in reflex against the silence.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Twilight in Italy