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At last he had spoken, had given his confidence to this hostile stranger man; not vauntingly or challengingly, but simply as he had spoken his name. Against his will he had done this thing, despite a reticence no one who did not understand Indian nature could appreciate. Then at least it would not have taken a wise man to hold aloof. Then at least common courtesy would have called a halt.
Edward Blancove was by Mrs. Lovell's side. His eyes fixed upon Robert with steady scrutiny, and Robert gave him a similar inspection, though not knowing why. It was like a child's open look, and he was feeling childish, as if his brain had ceased to act. One of the older gentlemen, with a military aspect, squared his shoulders, and touching an end of his moustache, said, half challengingly,
"And if you don't come down and help us, we're going to leave you out," he added challengingly. "Better come up here," suggested Laura, adding decidedly. "We can't come down, you know." "I'd like to know why not!" "We can't leave the trunk," Laura explained patiently, as if she were addressing a particularly stupid child. "It's too precious."
She remembered what she had felt during her first ride with Androvsky. "I believe you are afraid of it," she said challengingly. "Fear is sometimes the beginning of wisdom," he answered. "But you are without it, I know." "How do you know?" "Every day I see you galloping away into the sun." She thought there was a faint sound of warning or was it of rebuke in his voice. It made her feel defiant.
"She she tried to hurt Amabel; she tried to" Amabel made that hideous gesture with her tiny forefinger across her throat. "Mamma was sick or she wouldn't," she added, challengingly, to Robert. "Of course she wouldn't, you poor little soul," said Robert. Suddenly Amabel burst into tears, and began to wriggle herself free from his arms. "Let me go," she demanded; "let me go. I want Ellen."
She pushed back the left side of his coat and taking one of the rough, hairy leaves of the plant she located it over Peter's heart, her slim, deft fingers patting down the leaf and flattening it out until it lay pasted smooth and tight. As she worked, she smiled at him challengingly. Peter knew he was experiencing a ceremony of some kind, the significance of which he must learn.
"In Napoleonic times, Stransky, I think you might even have carried a marshal's baton in your knapsack." "You what rot!" A sort of triumph played around Stransky's full lips and his jaw shot out challengingly. "No, never against my comrades on the other side of the border!" he concluded, his dogged stare returning.
That is all I dare ask for my children a chance to try." "To try what?" asked the doctor challengingly. "To try not to have life make them worse instead of better. That's not much to ask but nobody I know, but one only has " "Simplicity and right living don't come from camping out in a shed," said the doctor angrily. "Externals are nothing. If the heart is right and simple "
"My word," she went on. "One big fella talk. Sun he go down talk-talk; sun he come up talk-talk; all the time talk-talk. What name that fella talk-talk? "Oh, nothing much." He shrugged his shoulders. "They were trying to buy Berande, that was all." She looked at him challengingly. "It must have been more than that. It was you who wanted to sell."
"And yet most of us have explosives stored away inside of us instincts, impulses and all that sort of thing that won't stand too much bottling-up." "Yes, I've joined the strike." She spoke somewhat challengingly, though she had an uneasy feeling that defiance was somewhat out of place with him. "I suppose you think it strange, since I'm not a foreigner and haven't worked in the mills.
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