Or it is the heart, which hastens or slackens its beats, or makes them irregular, or enfeebles, or augments them.
Then friend Fox, who was only waiting for these words, hastens out, throws himself on the wicked fowls, and quick!
With all possible speed he slips out from among the roots, and is already rising; and as he approaches the surface and finds the blessed light beating more and more strongly upon the mud about his eyes, he hastens his flight, until, with an eager sniff, he reaches the surface.