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Updated: June 23, 2025
'And you won't have any, either, that I'll see to! What's more, you'll do as your mother bids you, or I'll know the reason why. Go upstairs at once! It was not a command to be disregarded. 'Arry rose, but half-defiantly. 'What have you to do with it? You're not my master. 'Do you hear what I say? Richard observed, yet more autocratically. 'Take yourself off, and at once!
"He met me at the steamer." She raised her eyes to his, half-appealingly, half-defiantly. "And he told you " "He has told me everything," Thayer interrupted her. He rose restlessly, crossed the room to the mantel and examined a vase with unseeing eyes. Then, returning, he halted directly before her, straightened his shoulders and drew a deep, full breath. "Beatrix?" he said unsteadily.
"There's something in your contention, John," he said, "but I'm acting for my client remember, and he has his ideas of right and wrong, too. He's paying for the place." The young teacher's face fell, and old Sandy McLachlan, who had been watching him with eyes pitifully anxious, came a step nearer. "They will not be turning me off?" he asked, half-fearfully, half-defiantly.
He was offering his arm, and she found herself joining in his laugh a happy, confidential little laugh. Dorothea cast a nervous glance towards her brother, but Endymion's back was turned. She saw that her partner noted the look, and half-defiantly she nodded towards the gallery as the French musicians struck into a jolly jigging quick- step with a crash at every third bar.
As they climbed into the trap she could tell that he was sulking. He looked at her half-defiantly from under his long lashes, and the corners of his mouth were turned down like a child's. The drive home was constrained and nearly silent.
"You place an exalted estimate upon yourself," returned Cornelia. They looked at each other half-defiantly for a moment; then the heiress bowed her head, and said, in low, broken tones: "Oh, Beulah, Beulah! child of poverty! would I could change places with you!" "You are weak, Cornelia," answered Beulah gravely. "In some respects, perhaps, I am; but you are bold to tell me so."
There, all among the women and children, half-shyly, half-defiantly, they pecked at the plaster flesh and returned to resume the conversation in the piazza with a new serenity and confidence in their hearts. After the dead Christ came a triumphal car of the very little girls with wings, signifying I know not what, but intensely satisfying to the onlookers.
"Well, you never took me for a lady, did you?" she said, half-defiantly. "What was it?" repeated Merryon, sticking to the point. Again she grimaced at him, but she answered, "Oh, I only after I'd had my bath lay on the floor and ran round my head for a bit. It's not a bit difficult, once you've got the knack. But I got thinking of Mrs.
She turned autocratically to her secretary. "We'll dispense with the reading of the minutes of the last meeting," she declared half-defiantly. "We'll take 'em as read and passed. This liquor business is driving us all to perdition, as well as wasting our time, which is more important in Rocky Springs. I've never seen the like of this place." She glared directly at the two men.
"Ah!..." she hesitated, then said to him, looking half-defiantly towards Ethel: "Time after time, when I thought you were alone, I've wanted to just look in and see if you were all right. But I didn't like to. People don't take to me as a rule, and I'm... I'm... well, I'm not an ingratiating sort of person, and I guessed, probably, you'd all rather do without any help I had to give."
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