You will excuse this extreme haste, but circumstances require that I should immediately remove my sister, and I have not a moment's time to lose.

Whatever she brought here I will send for, if you will allow me, in the course of the day.' Mr Wititterly bowed, but offered no opposition to Kate's immediate departure; with which, indeed, he was rather gratified than otherwise, Sir Tumley Snuffim having given it as his opinion, that she rather disagreed with Mrs Wititterly's constitution.
'With regard to the trifle of salary that is due,' said Mr Wititterly, 'I will'-- here he was interrupted by a violent fit of coughing--'I will--owe it to Miss Nickleby.' Mr Wititterly, it should be observed, was accustomed to owe small accounts, and to leave them owing.

All men have some little pleasant way of their own; and this was Mr Wititterly's.
'If you please,' said Nicholas.

And once more offering a hurried apology for so sudden a departure, he hurried Kate into the vehicle, and bade the man drive with all speed into the city.
To the city they went accordingly, with all the speed the hackney coach could make; and as the horses happened to live at Whitechapel and to be in the habit of taking their breakfast there, when they breakfasted at all, they performed the journey with greater expedition than could reasonably have been expected.
Nicholas sent Kate upstairs a few minutes before him, that his unlooked-for appearance might not alarm his mother, and when the way had been paved, presented himself with much duty and affection.

Newman had not been idle, for there was a little cart at the door, and the effects were hurrying out already.
Now, Mrs Nickleby was not the sort of person to be told anything in a hurry, or rather to comprehend anything of peculiar delicacy or importance on a short notice.