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"Now let 'em try to get her away from me!" he muttered, defiantly. "Young Mr. Little has been trying frequently during the afternoon to reach you on the telephone, sir," said Jeeves that night, when I got home. "I'll bet he has," I said. I had sent poor old Bingo an outline of the situation by messenger-boy shortly after lunch. "He seemed a trifle agitated." "I don't wonder.
There would be servants about, he presumed, and very likely they would recognize him, and of course they would talk about it to Tom, Dick and Harry afterward. But he said to himself defiantly that he didn't care. He withdrew his arm from hers as they came upon the well-lighted main street. He passed no one who seemed to know him.
Yet he walked the streets with him as before walking defiantly and with shame those streets through which he had once led the perfect father in festal parade, to receive the applause of a respectful populace. Now he went forth awkwardly, doggedly, keen for signs that others saw what he did, and quick to burn with bitter, unreasoning resentment, when he detected that they did so.
Marching in he took up his position on the hearth-rug, his back to the fire, and with his hands deep in his pockets, he turned his face rather defiantly toward his grandmother. "Granny, I'm not going to school without Roy." "Hoighty-toity! What next, I wonder. Is that the way for little boys to speak to their elders.
"The bishop asked me to go in an' he took me in himself," retorted Tode, defiantly. "For the land's sake," exclaimed Mrs. Hunt. "He must be a queer kind of a bishop!" "A splendid kind of a bishop, I should think," put in Nan, and the boy responded quickly, "He is so! I never see a man like him." "Never see a man like him? What d'ye mean, Tode?" questioned Mrs. Hunt.
"Ah, you do not care to repeat it. I desire to know it. I command you to answer me!" But Hartmut was still silent; he only pressed his lips closer together, and looked defiantly at his father, who had come close to him now. "You will not speak? Perhaps a command from the other side keeps you silent? No matter, your silence tells me more than any words.
Well, you've time enough to go there, get it, make your train, and listen to me, too. Look here, Kerns, have you any of the elements of decency about you?" "No," said Kerns, "not a single element." He seated himself defiantly in the club window facing Gatewood and began to button his gloves.
Pushing aside the dried timber which had caused this mischance, he pressed on the track of the deer impetuously. He could not believe that his shot had missed altogether, though the white tail had been erected so defiantly; which 'showing of the white feather, as the Canadian sportsman calls it, is a sign that the animal is unwounded. But four feet had much the advantage of two in the chase.
He wiped his eyes for the last time with the crumpled ball of his handkerchief, sniffed three times defiantly, and settled to a summary of the passing country, cows, and hills and hedges, presently the pleasing bustle of Truro station, and then again the cows and hills and hedges. On parting from Cornwall he discovered a new sensation, and was surprised that he should feel it.
They took the stage-coach from Brampton over the pass: picturesque stage-coach with its apple-green body and leather springs, soon to be laid away forever if the coveted Truro Franchise Bill becomes a law; stage-coach which pulls up defiantly beside its own rival at Truro station, where our passengers take the train down the pleasant waterways and past the little white villages among the fruit trees to the capital.
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