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But there was always something a bit eerie and fantastic about her, something not exactly of the everyday world her high cheekbones and thin, emotional face with its scarlet lips and intense expression faintly foreshadowing an unusual future. But Polly at the present moment was not feeling in the least unusual, only rather more self-willed and more calculating.
A loud, boisterous, self-willed boy, with already strength, courage, and power beyond those of most grown men; his inclination light and unformed, as the attachments of his age usually are, was so backed that he succeeded where failure would have been a blessing. My poor brother Eustace! what must not Harold's marriage have been to him!
They were the men who joined Fimbria in putting to death Flaccus, who was a consul and their general, and who gave up Fimbria himself to Sulla self-willed and lawless men, but brave and full of endurance, and experienced soldiers.
Then, with her little basket on her arm, she turns away slowly to join the maid-servant who is waiting for her in the hall. "I am SO fond of that child," sighs Signora Evelina, with the sweetest inflexion in her voice, "but she doesn't like me at all!" "What an absurd idea!...Doretta is a very self-willed child."
Then, whilst I live he will have the run of the house and all it contains: then, if I die leaving children, he will be less and less welcome. His future, my lord, is a dismal one, unless some strange piece of luck turn up on which we were fools to speculate. Henceforth he is doomed to dependence, and I know no worse lot than to be dependent on a self-willed woman like our mother.
"You are right," said the young Englishman, with energy; "and you cannot reproach me for such a resolution." "No, there is another course left to you. Do you love Isabel di Pisani truly and fervently? If so, marry her, and take a bride to your native land." "Nay," answered Glyndon, embarrassed. "Isabel is not of my rank; her character is strange and self-willed; her education neglected.
Besides, though Agafya no longer waited on Lisa, she was still in the house and often saw her charge, who believed in her as before. Agafya did not, however, get on well with Marfa Timofyevna, when she came to live in the Kalitins' house. Such gravity and dignity on the part of one who had once worn the motley skirt of a peasant wench displeased the impatient and self-willed old lady.
A great and vivid personality, and forty years of exuberant and self-willed life had at a stroke been checked and changed. The crust of his mind had cooled; tempestuous passions had passed from the surface, giving place to kindlier emotions, but the furnace was there beneath the flower garden just as it is in the case of the earth.
Let it suffice to say that the natives of Ratinga turned round, childlike and they were little more than grown up children swallowed all he had to say and did all he bid them do or nearly all, for of course there were a few self-willed characters among them who objected at first to the wholesale changes that Waroonga introduced in their manners and customs.
She had grown in this night of suffering, less self-willed and blindly impulsive. Some scales had dropped from her eyes, and she saw clearer. Yet no repentance for that one act of her life, which involved a series of consequences beyond the reach of conjecture, had found a place in her heart.
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