He turned his horse instantly and galloped back for it.

The time of his absence appeared immeasurably long, but he returned safely after having destroyed the dangerous paper.
'Longford was crowded with yeomanry of various corps, and with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who had flocked thither for protection.

With great difficulty the poor Edgeworth Town infantry found lodgings.

We were cordially received by the landlady of a good inn.

Though her house was, as she said, fuller than it could hold, as she was an old friend of my father's, she did contrive to give us two rooms, in which we eleven were thankful to find ourselves.