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Sometimes my pulse beat so quickly and hardly that I felt the palpitation of every artery; at others, I nearly sank to the ground through languor and extreme weakness.

what does hardly mean in this line

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It means Middle English with energy and force

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Rough; fast; jolting. The writer is clearly disadvantage in English and is having trouble expressing himself coherently, but he means his heart beats so quick, and so hard, that he has trouble functioning. 
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