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Is that what you call kindness friendship affection?" She made no answer. A moment later a voice was heard calling softly: "Carrie?" The girl came out of the shelter of the eaves, and Max at last caught sight of her face. It was sad, pale, altogether different from what the reckless, defiant, rather hard tones of her latest words would have led him to expect. A haunting face, Max thought.
And defiant to the last, her head rose, and for an instant, for a mere breath of time, they saw her as she had looked in her prime, regal in form, attitude, and expression; then the will which had sustained her through so much, faltered and succumbed, and with a final reiteration of the words "Four minutes after two!" she broke into a rattling laugh, and fell back into the arms of her old nurse.
"Your majesty," interrupted John, in a loud, vehement voice, "your majesty, I " "Well, what is it?" cried the emperor, hastily advancing a few steps toward his brother, and staring at him with defiant eyes. "What have you got to say to me?" "Nothing, your majesty," said John, in a hollow voice; "you are the emperor! I am silent, and submit."
The clear voice had a decided, defiant tone this time. "If you won't go through this lane, stop, and I'll get out here."
Only one hundred and sixty men were there to oppose the hosts of Proctor and Tecumseh. Proctor sent a demand to the fort for surrender, accompanied by the usual threat of massacre by the Indians in case of refusal. To his surprise, Major Croghan sent a defiant refusal. A cannonade from the gunboats and howitzers which the British had landed commenced.
"Then, if you do" Jasper stopped suddenly and brought his keen dark eyes to bear on the rough, defiant face "I just hope you will tell me. And I know you will," he added, after a pause in which Frick fastened his gaze on them both wildly, luckily without discovering any use for his tongue. The boy swallowed hard, dropped his eyes for a moment, then looked up. "He was out on the pond."
She shook her head and turned again on to the Parade, and with her went Susie's light feet, so real, so active, that she almost saw the red jersey on a level with her shoulder, and those brown, defiant eyes. For it was of Susie that her mind was full poor Susie, who had "often and often not wanted to go," but who had gone.
He saw the defiant expression depart from the McFluke countenance, and a look of unmistakable relief take its place. Racey dropped his head. The sheriff was speaking. "Mac," he was saying, "yo're lyin'. Yo're lyin' as fast as a hoss can trot. You never got yore black eye on this door. I dunno why yo're sayin' you did, but I'm gonna find out. Till "
How is a mother to deal with a daughter who is so determined and so defiant as was Beatrice Miller? There is no known method in civilized life of reducing a young lady of twenty to submission in matters of the heart. She could not whip her, or put her on bread and water, nor could she shut her up in a dark cupboard, as she might have done had she been ten years old.
'Indeed! is there much distress at Marksedge? said Mrs. Ponsonby. 'They have gifts with our own poor at Christmas, said Lord Ormersfield, 'but they are a defiant, ungrateful set, always in distress by their own fault. 'What cause have they for gratitude? exclaimed his son. 'For being turned out of house and home? for the three miles' walk to their daily work! Yes, it is the fact.
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