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But she quickly threw off the feeling, or the outward appearance of it, and tossing her head defiantly, she remarked: "I do not know who has made you my mentor, Miss Dinsmore; but there is one thing more that I wish you to explain to me how came that detective to be in my house?" "He was passing in the street, and I asked him to come in," Mona replied.
'No, he doesn't, Hilda went on, rather defiantly, as though Ernest had been Lady Exmoor; 'and most of these people that come here don't either. They have galleries, and they get artists and people who understand about pictures to talk with them, and so they learn what's considered the proper thing to say of each of them.
"Mr Winklethorpe told me I was very good with the wooden clubs," she said defiantly. "He's a great kidder," said Ramsden. He went down the hill to where his ball lay. Eunice proceeded direct for the green. Much as she told herself that she hated this man, she never questioned his ability to get there with his next shot.
Atherden made no motion as if to leave his place; he merely glared defiantly at the doctor, while he twisted his mustache and chatted on, and the doctor was forced to go away again. Notwithstanding her apparent unconsciousness of his presence, Louise had looked after him with a little wistful expression in her blue eyes.
"You can do what you damn please about that," said Barker defiantly. The proceedings seemed to have come to a definite end so far as he was concerned; for one had only to look at that granite face to realize that no peine forte et dure would ever force him to plead against his will. The deadlock was broken, however, by a woman's voice. Mrs.
"He will get over it, I'm sure," Jo insisted. "Why should the first generation here weight us all down here, too? I hope you'll not give up to your father. I wouldn't," Jo said defiantly. "Did you ever give up to him?" Thaine asked. "No, he gives up to me." The words were too sweetly said to seem harsh. "I don't blame him," Thaine added.
"Maybe we shall and maybe we sha'n't," said Miss Hitty, grimly. "Some folks 'll never see the beautiful shore. They'll go to the bad place." Araminta lifted her great, grey, questioning eyes. "Why?" she asked, simply. "Because they've been bad," answered Miss Hitty, defiantly. "But if they didn't know any better?" queried Araminta, threading her needle.
Then there came the soft pleading of something deeper to answer for Alan Macdonald, and to justify his rash deed. He had risked life to see her and set himself right in her eyes, and he had doubled the risk in standing there in the garden, defiantly proud, unbent, and unrepentant, refusing to leave her without some favor to carry away.
"Take your hands off me," I cried angrily, jerking my arm in an old wrestling trick and throwing my weight on him at an unbalanced angle, freeing myself and sending him back against the partition. He recovered himself and we stood facing each other defiantly. "God!" he growled, "but I'd like to kill you. You think you've won this time.
Uarda's eyes flashed, and she said proudly, almost defiantly: "My race is that of my mother, who was a daughter of no mean house; the reason I turned back this morning and went into the smoke and fire again after I had escaped once into the open air what I went back for, because I felt it was worth dying for, was my mother's legacy, which I had put away with my holiday dress when I followed the wretched Nemu to his tent.
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