Downing' s  Letters,  p.  5.
So  to  rights  the  express  got  back,  and  brought  a  letter.  —  Ibid.  p.  129.
Aunt.  You  see  where  she  lives — five  doors  down  the  street;  deliver  this  letter,
and  bring  back  an  answer  —  quick.
Dodittle.  In  a  jiffing ;  I  '11  be  back  to  rights.  —  D.  Humphreys,  The  Yankee  in
England.
"  Well,  Mr.  Nathaniel,  I  suppose  you  never  heard  me  tell  of  the  curious  way  of
my  first  seeing  the  squire  ?  "

I  said  I  had  never  heard  it — So  she  began  to  rights,  and  told  the  whole  thing.
—  Story  of  the  Sleigh  Ride.
Right.  Very.  The  word  in  this  sense  is  rarely  heard  at  the  North,  but
is  in  constant  use  at  the  South ;  as,  "  It  rains  right  hard."  A  New
Yorker  would  say  "  very,"  or  "  quite  "  hard.
Right  away.     Directly  ;  immediately  ;  right  off.
Mr.  Dickens,  in  his  "  American  Notes,"  relates  the  following  anecdote,
which  occurred  at  the  Tremont  House,  Boston :

"  Dinner  as  quick  as  possible,"  said  I  to  the  waiter.
"Right  away  ?  "  said  the  waiter.
After  a  moment's  hesitation,  I  answered,  "  No,"  at  hazard.
"  Not  right  away  ?  "  cried  the  waiter  with  surprise.
I  thought  the  waiter  must  have  gone  out  of  his  mind,  until  another  whispered  to
him  "  directly."

"  Well !  and  that 's  a  fact !  "  said  the  waiter,  "  Right  away."

I  now  saw  that  "  right  away  "  and  "  directly  *'  meant  the  same  thing.
"  Uncle  John,"  said  Nina,  "  I  want  you  to  get  the  carriage  out  for  me  right  away^
I  want  to  take  a  ride  over  the  cross-run."  —  Mrs  Stowe's  Dred,  Vol.  I.  p.  89.
