United States or Tunisia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There was a blaze of scarlet on her cheeks and her eyes flashed fire, but she stood up straight and defiant, when another child might have broken down and cried. Chilian Leverett always remembered the picture she made small, dark, and spirited. "No," he exclaimed, "you need not go back." Then he rose and took her hand that was cold and trembling. "You will not go back. Let us find Miss Winn "
He leant against the window-frame and gazed out into the black storm. Knowing what he now did, it required no great stretch of ingenuity to unravel Manetho's secret. He turned to Gnulemah, and, taking her in his arms, kissed her with a defiant kind of ardor. "What is it?" she whispered, clinging to him with a reflex of his own unspoken emotion. "We are safe!
Defiant and alone, he explained his case to himself. Since it merely intensified his agony to compare his lot with that of others who seemed to be similarly situated, he did not do it. He avoided in truth all reflections that might have made the world appear to him as having at least a semblance of justice.
In the matter of his second marriage he was seen at his best, generously defiant of social cruelties; but self-knowledge was denied him, and circumstances condemned his life to futility. Clara inherited his temperament; transferred to her more complex nature, it gained in subtlety and in power of self-direction, but lost in its nobler elements.
If only she had needed him, if she had not looked so self-possessed and so ever so faintly defiant, as though she dared him to pity her, he would have known what to do. All he needed was to be needed. His open face was full of trouble. It was unthinkable that Lily should be in that center of anarchy; more unthinkable that Doyle might have filled her up with all sorts of wild ideas.
It might have amused Bartley, if he had felt quite well, to see the girl so defiant of him, when she was really so much in love with him, but it certainly did not amuse him now: it disappointed him in his expectation of finding her femininely soft and comforting, and he did not know just what to do.
It was Edward Langham. He and Rose stood and stared at each other a moment. Then Rose in the coolest lightest voice introduced him to Agnes. Agnes, with one curious glance, took in her sister's defiant, smiling ease and the stranger's embarrassment; then she went on to find Catherine.
There was a chorus of "bravos" and shouts of "Vivi el Mejico," as the majority congratulated the speaker. When the chief led the prisoner back to his blanket, he spoke hopefully to Don Ramon, explaining that it was the mescal the men had drunk which made them so unreasonable and defiant. Promising to reason with them when they were more sober, he left Don Ramon with his solitary guard.
But he was arrested and taken before the tribunal, where in the most defiant manner, he demanded to know why a person of his distinguished title and record as a servant of the czar was now a prisoner. "Prince Mastowix," said the president of the tribunal, "it ill becomes a traitor to the State to exhibit such arrogance."
But a third arrow was quickly drawn, and stepping from behind the tree, so that he stood in full sight, he swung his hand aloft with a defiant shout, and coolly walked away, as though the warriors were too insignificant to be noticed further. The wounded Pawnee was so much occupied with his hurt that he was willing the youth should leave the neighborhood without further molestation from him.
Word Of The Day