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Doubtless his mother already had selected the girl, and presently would marry him to her. ... Somehow this was the one phase of the situation that galled him most. "I'll see about that," he muttered, rebelliously, "I'll see about that." Not that marriage was of importance to him yet, except as a thing to be avoided until some dim future.
So then I sat down and took his head on my knees, and closed the eyes, and wept quietly while the sun sank lower. But a little after sunset I heard a rustle through the leaves, that was not the wind, and looking up my eyes met the pitying eyes of that maiden. Something stirred rebelliously within me; I ceased weeping, and said: "It is unjust, unfair: What right had Swanhilda to live?
The traditional parts of this system are, as Cervantes tried to show, for the chief part, barbarous and obsolete; the modern additions are largely due to the novel readers and writers of our own century most of them half-educated women, rebelliously slavish, superstitious, sentimental, full of the intense egotism fostered by their struggle for personal liberty, and, outside their families, with absolutely no social sentiment except love.
They aren't mutually exclusive really. It ought to be possible to have quite a lot of each." "You think you know such a lot," she protested rebelliously, "but there's only one thing I want, just the same, and that's John, himself." "No doubt that's true this afternoon," he admitted.
Through the parlor windows he saw the stolen Edith rebelliously confronting the tall woman who had been a party to the kidnaping in Central Park. Eliphalet Congdon entered the room clutching a newspaper and Archie heard him exclaim angrily: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Edith. Your papa's just come and is sick and tired and your fretting's keeping him awake.
My old mother died soon after I had taken this oath. I kept my word as you see and you have seen too how I endure my fate." "Patiently enough," replied Publius, "I should writhe in my chains far more rebelliously than you, and I fancy it must do you good to rage and storm sometimes as you did just now."
She would have died for Walter if it would have done him any good, so she told Miss Oliver. Rilla was as fond of italics as most girls of fifteen are and the bitterest drop in her cup was her suspicion that he told Di more of his secrets than he told her. "He thinks I'm not grown up enough to understand," she had once lamented rebelliously to Miss Oliver, "but I am!
This might mean, though it need not, that he had retrograded to a lower type; at all events it meant that he was robbed of his excuse for considering himself an exile, bearing himself rebelliously toward his environment, and being unhappy.
His voice came to her in a dull murmur, and the sound of the running water came, again like the muffled tinkling of little silver bells in the distance. Both his arms were strong about her, and now her own hands rose in rebellion to meet where the kerchief was knotted at the back of his neck, quite as the hands of the other woman had rebelliously flung down the scarf from the balcony.
Her hands went to her breast. "Sam please " He paused. "What do you want?" "Sam I say I sorry. I say I a fool." He stood in uncomfortable silence. "I say I fool," she repeated. "That not easy to say." Still he had no answer. "Why you so hard to me?" she demanded rebelliously. "Can't you see in my heart? There is nothing but good in there for you. I want you be good to me.
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