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It seemed so evident that she had been a curious spectator of his abrupt entrance on deck that he was at first disconcerted and confused. But after a second glance at her he appeared to resume his composure, and advanced a little defiantly towards the galley. "I suppose I frightened you, popping up the fore hatch just now?" "The what?" asked Rosey.
His instant recognition of the situation produced a powerful reaction in his mind; and he recovered, as if by magic, his coolness and the free exercise of his faculties. "Yes," he resumed, defiantly, "this is hypocrisy enough. To dare to prate of reparation after the insults that you and yours have inflicted, is adding intentional humiliation to insult and I will not permit it."
Monday morning Andy brought his paper. "Seen Tim yet?" he asked. "No?" He fell to whistling softly. Late that afternoon Tim appeared. "There's mine," he said defiantly. There was an awkward silence. Presently Tim walked out through the gate and was gone. Don sat beside his work and pondered. As a patrol leader, what should he do?
Her dislike for Gaylor was so evident that, to make it less apparent, she lowered her eyes. "My uncle should be able to tell you," she said evenly. "He was my father's executor. But, when he returned my father's papers" she paused and then, although her voice fell to almost a whisper, continued defiantly, "the agreement was not with them." There was a moment's silence.
Dol uttered a mad "Whoop-ee!" and heedlessly dashed off a few steps in pursuit. Reynard whisked his brush as much as to say, "You can't get the better of me, stranger!" and defiantly trotted away. Recovering his senses, the boy managed to recover the trail too, and was keeping to it carefully when a second temptation beset him.
Though he was not afraid, the appearance of the mother bear was more than he had bargained for, and he immediately rolled himself into a ball again, every quill bristling defiantly. The old bear, however, wise in the lore of the dim trails, paid no more attention to him.
The fierce-looking man who was copying "The Horse Fair" deliberately put down his brushes, folded his arms, and waited defiantly until they had gone by; but others, wiser in their generation, went on painting calmly. Several workers were painting the new Raphael; one of them was a white-haired old gentlewoman, whose hand was trembling, and yet skilful still.
And she pushed her share over the table, with a peremptory gesture. Meryon took it with a smile and a shrug, and she, throwing away the cigarette she had been defiantly smoking, rose from the table. "Now then, what shall we do? Oh! no museums! I am being educated to death! Let us go for a walk in the forest; and then I must catch my train, or the world will go mad."
It began to look as if it would at last be a fight with six corners to it. The faces of the men were shining red with anger. They jostled each other defiantly, and almost every one blazed out at three or four of the others. The bartender had given up protesting. He swore for a time and banged his glasses. Then he jumped the bar and ran out of the saloon, cursing sullenly.
No, I want you to do it. Well, I'll read it to you, then!" He ripped open the worn envelope, squared his elbows across the table, and opened the scented inclosure defiantly, but before he could read it Hardy reached out suddenly and covered it with his hand. "Please don't, Jeff," he said, his face pale and drawn. "It was all my fault I should have told you but please don't read it to me.
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