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"H'm. Ten past eleven. You'll have to look sharp, boy, if you're to get to the docks by twelve. We've a good four miles' walk ahead of us, and what was that?" "That" was the sound of a man's feet coming swiftly toward them; they had one second to act, and flight over this marshy ground, filled with pit holes as it was, was impossible. No; the best plan was to stay where they were and chance it.
There would be suspicion and fear and greed and hate ... and very swiftly and very surely, civilisation would reel and topple and fall to pieces.... At any moment that might happen.
When startled they run swiftly, but soon halt, stand gazing back, and then gallop on as before. During summer they frequent the sides of the mountains; but, as winter approaches, they descend to the high table plains, and browse upon the natural meadows found there. They are captured in various ways.
My intense manner must have frightened the poor thing, for he ducked as swiftly as if he had been at a fair in Ireland and somebody had hove a cobble at his head. "Come up!" I whispered, choking with rage. "Come up! You'll be breaking your nose on the road." He straightened himself, looking somewhat bewildered, and said: "What was it? Was I too slow? Did I do it well?" "Oh, fine," said I. "Fine.
The coastguard man had only two shots to spare, and he did not know in the least whether the men opposed to him were armed or not. His decision had to be made swiftly. He was a kind man, fond of dumb animals, and averse to hurting anything in the world; but he saw that there was only one way of preventing the cargo from being safely carried inland.
Frikkie's face was white and blue, and his jaw hung oddly; but once he was within the door, some reinforcement of association came to Christina, and she went about her ministry purposefully and swiftly, a little comforted.
The people should be swiftly brought into order again! John in his prison was preparing, as all without the prison were. The crowd was gathering fast. He would soon be led forth. The shameful march was forming. Now the brutal hand of Power was lifted with scourges. The bravest man in Meaux was driven through the streets, she saw with what a visage, she knew with what a heart.
"I was thinking of your father's safety," he muttered. "I will watch over him myself," she said. She went swiftly up the stairs. Ambrose sat by himself on a chair at the junction of the side passage with the stair hall. Naturally, after what had passed, he avoided the other men and they him. It was growing light. He saw the panes of the side door gray and whiten.
Up the hill they sped, but the feet of Umslopogaas never wearied, his breath did not fail him. Once more they drew near the lap of the Grey Witch where the cave was. On rushed the bull, mad with fear. He ran so swiftly that the wolves were left behind, since here for a space the ground was level to his feet. Galazi looked on Umslopogaas at his side, and grinned.
"Yes, we can say that," responded the major, "and , keep down!" he called out violently. A number of bullets had swished swiftly past us. We kept close to the bank and walked, bending down, until we came again to the sunken portion of the road. "We can also report that this road was subjected to machine-gun fire," concluded the major pointedly.
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