Whereupon the Squire fired at her such a volley of oaths that she sprang off the chair on which she was sitting, and darted across to a little table at which there was pen and ink, and wrote her note to Mr. Gogram, before she had recovered from the shaking which the battery had given her. 
The Squire fired such a volley of oaths at her that she sprang up and wrote at once to Mr. Gogram. 