The fact that they were opposed to her father was immaterial.

She loathed tyranny and his method of shutting the mouths of those who disagreed with him was particularly obnoxious to her.

It was also most ineffectual with her.

From childhood she had always spoken as she felt.
No discipline checked her.

Freedom of speech as well as freedom of thought were as natural and essential to her as breathing was.
From that time she saw but little of her father.