She immediately suspected some disaster to have happened to her friend, and her own speech was as much overpowered by emotion as mine.
"She was silent, but her looks manifested her impatience to hear what I had to communicate.

I spoke, but with so much precipitation as scarcely to be understood; catching her, at the same time, by the arm, and forcibly pulling her from her seat.
"Come along with me: fly: waste not a moment: time will be lost, and the deed will be omitted.

Tarry not; question not; but fly with me! "This deportment added afresh to her alarms.

Her eyes pursued mine, and she said, "What is the matter?
For God's sake what is the matter?
Where would you have me go ?" "My eyes were fixed upon her countenance while she spoke.

I thought upon her virtues; I viewed her as the mother of my babes: as my wife: I recalled the purpose for which I thus urged her attendance.