"I go at once." And on the instant he departed.

Such was his eagerness, indeed, that under the hot spur of it he did not even stay to fetch that parchment which was to be his unanswerable advocate.

The omission was momentous.
Master Lionel said no word as his brother swept out.

He shrank back a little into the shadows.

He was white to the lips and felt as he would stifle.