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An American Tragedy
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Mr. Hegglund of Jersey City escorted him to the twelfth floor and into a room where they found on guard a wizened' and grizzled little old man of doubtful age and temperament, who forthwith outfitted Clyde with a suit that was so near a fit that, without further orders, it was not deemed necessary to alter it.†
Chpt 1

forthwith = immediately
But seeing him rush in on Monday afternoon and announce that he had secured the place and that forthwith he must change his tie and collar and get his hair cut and go back and report, she felt better about it.†
Chpt 1
"Sure," he agreed, gallantly, and forthwith she signaled the young Negress who had returned as waitress, and in a moment a small table was put before them and a bottle of whisky with soda on the side—a sight that so astonished and troubled Clyde that he could scarcely speak.†
Chpt 1
And forthwith she began to primp and admire herself before a mirror which surmounted an ocher-colored mantelpiece that graced a fireless grate in the dining-room.†
Chpt 1
She clapped her hands admiringly, while Isadore Rubenstein, the elderly son of the proprietor, who was standing somewhat out of the range of her gaze at the moment, noted the gesture and her enthusiasm and decided forthwith that the coat must be worth at least twenty-five or fifty dollars more to her, anyhow, in case she inquired for it.†
Chpt 1
Mr. Rubenstein's head forthwith began to wag a solemn negative.†
Chpt 1 *
And forthwith, seizing Maida Axelrod by the hand, he started to run east along Thirty-fifth Street, in which the car then lay—along the outlying eastern suburbs.†
Chpt 1
"Come on all, or the dinner will be getting cold," admonished Mrs. Griffiths earnestly, and forthwith Gilbert turned and went down, followed by Griffiths, who still had Bella on his arm.†
Chpt 2
Once seated at the table, the family forthwith began discussing topics of current local interest.†
Chpt 2
Forthwith (a psychic reaction which he did not understand and could not very well control) he decided that he did not like him—could not like him.†
Chpt 2
Then two months after he had received his mother's first letter and while he was deciding almost every day that he must do something, and that forthwith, he chanced one day to deliver to the Union League Club on Jackson Boulevard a package of ties and handkerchiefs which some visitor to Chicago had purchased at the store, for which he worked.†
Chpt 2
And forthwith, he began to explain that just at present there wasn't anything in the Union League, but that he would talk to Mr. Haley who was superintendent of the club—and that if Clyde wanted to, and Mr. Haley knew of anything, he would try and find out if there was an opening anywhere, or likely to be, and if so, Clyde could slip into it.†
Chpt 2
And forthwith he offered to buy Clyde some cigarettes—a soda—anything he liked.†
Chpt 2
And Rita Dickerman forthwith bestowed upon Clyde an intimate and possessive smile.†
Chpt 2
And forthwith his interest in, as well as his weakness for, Rita, if not Zella and Dillard began to evaporate.†
Chpt 2
And forthwith he arose and went to mail the letter to Sondra.†
Chpt 2
And yet ...And forthwith an uncanny feeling of wretchedness and insufficiency for so dark a crime insisted on thrusting itself forward.†
Chpt 2
And forthwith, even while the body of Roberta was being taken north to the boat-house, and the dragging for the body of the lost man was resumed, suspicions were being voiced in such phrases as: "Well, it looks kinda queer—them marks—an' all,—don't it?†
Chpt 3
And forthwith there was doubled and trebled in the minds of all a most urgent desire that he be overtaken and captured.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith there flared up in his mind a terrible and quite uncontrollable desire for revenge upon any one who could plot so horrible a crime as this against his daughter.†
Chpt 3
Forthwith he was out of the house and away to call Crane or any other doctor, and then as swiftly returning with Mrs. Wilcox and her daughter.†
Chpt 3
Forthwith, the district attorney proceeded with him to a local notary's office where a deposition was made, after which he called his office, and learning that Roberta's body had been brought to Bridgeburg, he drove there with as much speed as he could attain.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith, and while Sondra wept on, he proceeded first to call his wife in order to explain the nature of the blow—a social blow that was to lurk in her memory as a shadow for the rest of her years—and next to call up Legare Atterbury, lawyer, state senator, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee and his own private counsel for years past, to whom he explained the amazing difficulty in which his daughter now found herself.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith, a hegira of the Finchleys to Narragansett, where under the name of Wilson they secluded themselves for the next six weeks.†
Chpt 3
Esta forthwith made a hurried departure for her mother's home.†
Chpt 3
THE telegram, worded in the spirit just described, was forthwith despatched care of Belknap and Jephson, who immediately counseled Clyde what to reply—that all was well with him; that he had the best of advice and would need no financial aid.†
Chpt 3
"Bring in that boat, will you, Burton?" he called to Burleigh at this point, and forthwith four deputies from the district attorney's office retired through a west door behind the judge's rostrum and soon returned carrying the identical boat in which Clyde and Roberta had sat, and put it down before the jury.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith the four deputies carried it out.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith a telegram and a letter to Mrs. Griffiths, saying that as yet no word had been said to Clyde but none-the-less his Lycurgus relatives had declined to assist him further in any way.†
Chpt 3
And forthwith he declared: "As his spiritual advisor I have entered only upon the spiritual, not the legal aspect of his life."†
Chpt 3

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(1) (forthwith)
immediately -- (most typically seen in legal documents, formal use, or classic literature)
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