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I don't care if all the animals on the place come, I'm going." He was walking defiantly from the door, when he heard his mother's voice at her window. "I never can sleep, John, with a horse crying around. I wish you'd go down to see what the trouble is. And do lock the shed door. I haven't slept five minutes to-night." What was Bert to do now?
But when the horse came circling back with a great flourish, she shivered and her hands closed into the fists of a fighter. "Are you a Sawtooth man?" she demanded suddenly, looking up at Swan defiantly. "It was a nightmare. I I dreamed once about a horse like that." Swan's wide-open eyes softened a little. "The Sawtooth calls me that damn Swede on Bear Top," he explained.
Daniel's astonishment at the sight was so great that he realized the entire state of the case before he could recover himself sufficiently to rise and go into the back room. Billy jumped up and looked defiantly at the intruder. Miss Pilgrim blushed violently, but turned away her head to avoid the exhibition of a still more convulsing emotion than embarrassment.
She told herself defiantly that she liked him very much; that she would rather have been with him over at Heston that afternoon than up in town with Jimmy. Kettering at least sought and enjoyed her society, but Jimmy She clenched her hands to keep back the blinding tears that crowded to her eyes. What was she crying for?
The count gazed long and earnestly into the lovely face turned defiantly toward him. What was said by those glowing eyes, what was expressed by those lips trembling with excitement, could not be mere sport.
"He spoke not for his life and estate, but for the honor of the martyrs to liberty that were in their graves, for the liberties of England, for the interest of all posterity to come." When he asked for counsel, the solicitor said: "Who will dare speak for you, unless you can call down from the gibbet the heads of your fellow-traitors?" "I stand single," Vane defiantly answered.
Nothing was so delightful as to have the room filled with her gurgling, and Maren had to chase him away from the cradle, at least twenty times a day. And when she took her first toddling steps! that little helpless, illegitimate child who had come defiantly into existence, and who, in return for life brightened the days of the two old wornout people.
I have all my father's dispatches, his cipher book, his telegrams from you, and the last, from Randall Clayton." "You are my wife," fiercely whispered Ferris. "In name only," defiantly replied Alice Worthington. "You will learn my father's last wishes later, and to your sorrow. You lied when you said that Clayton led a vile life. You poisoned my father's mind. Thank God! I am my own mistress now.
"He has been here nearly every other day for a fortnight," said Susan, with feminine exaggeration. "It is becoming so marked that everybody talks." "Well, I can't help it," said Lydia defiantly. "We are not a convent; and we can hardly padlock the gate." "You should discourage him if you don't mean to marry him."
"Well, and so I did," Miss Oliver admitted defiantly. "But I didn't ask you to make yourself conspicuous." Then he would descend on the town and work through it from door to door as Un' Benny Rowett put it, "like a cross between a ferret an' a Passover Angel."
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