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Updated: September 16, 2025
"She wouldn't see him. She's very strong-willed.... That's a wonderful woman, Ban." Io's voice shook a little. "Yes." "How did you know about the picture?" "I saw it on the dresser. And when I saw her eyes, I guessed." "Yes; there's only one thing a woman wants like that, when she's dying. You're rather a wonderful person, yourself, to have known. That's her other secret, Ban.
Put a strong-willed woman in this wretched situation, and she will force a way out of it for herself by a crime, like Catherine II., whom men nevertheless style "the Great." But these women are not all seated upon thrones, they are for the most part doomed to domestic unhappiness none the less terrible because obscure.
"Yes, but lots of children disappoint their parents bitterly," said Mrs. Brown, "and lots of good mothers have bad children!" "I never knew a good mother to have a bad child " began Mrs. Burgoyne. "Well, I have. Thousands," Mrs. Lloyd said promptly. "Oh, no! Not a BAD child," her hostess said, quickly. "A disappointing child perhaps, or a strong-willed child, you mean.
She cherished that singular desire of many strong-willed women, to be ruled and mastered by the man she loved, and she had entirely failed to understand her husband's attitude towards her. She resented it as a sign of indifference. She was like the Chinese wives, who complain bitterly of a husband's neglect when he omits to beat them. She taunted the Professor for failing to assert his "rights."
Whether he lived, or whether he had died, where he lay buried, if buried he were, or where he rioted, if still in the land of the living, they had no notion. And why should they care? He had been a strong-willed and wild lad. He had disobeyed the injunctions of his parents while yet a boy. He had not loved the stiff, sad Sabbaths, nor the gloomy Saturday nights.
This is a fault to which strong-willed children are especially liable. The first exercise of will-power after it has passed the stage of taking possession of the child's own organism usually brings him into conflict with those about him. To succeed in getting hold of a thing against the wish of someone else, and to hold on to it when someone else wants it, is to win a victory.
We're Vyells. And here's my point Oliver is a Vyell. He may be strong-willed, but did mamma happen to talk at all about the 'Family'?" "I think," answered Ruth with another faint flash of mirth, "it was I who asked her questions about it." Diana threw out her hands, laughing. "You are invincible! Well, I cannot hate you; and I've given you my warning.
There is not time to tell of all the steps by which Sophia, daughter of the first marriage, came to be the power behind the throne upon which sat her feeble brother Ivan, and her half-brother Peter, aged ten years. Sophia was an ambitious, strong-willed, strong-minded woman, who dared to emancipate herself from the tyranny of Russian custom.
Her face was rather serious; one did not expect her to smile easily; the eyes dull blue, with no trace of sparkle and set deep under heavy, level eyebrows. Her mouth was the mouth of the obstinate, of the strong-willed, and her chin was not small.
Prior Crowham was a cultivated, well-bred man, not over strong-willed, but courteous and sympathetic. He turned a little to Chris in his carved chair, as he laid the letter down. "Well," he said, smiling, "it is for you to choose whether you will offer yourself. Of course, there is uneasiness abroad, as this letter says, but what then?"
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