'But listen now, either you will marry where and when I wish, or tramp it for your bread.

Ungrateful girl, did I breed you to flaunt me to my face?
Now for you, pill-box.

I will teach you to come kissing honest men's daughters without their leave,' and with a curse he rushed at me, stick aloft, to thrash me.
Then for the second time that day my quick blood boiled in me, and snatching up the Spaniard's sword that lay upon the grass beside me, I held it at the point, for the game was changed, and I who had fought with cudgel against sword, must now fight with sword against cudgel.

And had it not been that Lily with a quick cry of fear struck my arm from beneath, causing the point of the sword to pass over his shoulder, I believe truly that I should then and there have pierced her father through, and ended my days early with a noose about my neck.
'Are you mad ?' she cried.

'And do you think to win me by slaying my father?
Throw down that sword, Thomas.' 'As for winning you, it seems that there is small chance of it;' I answered hotly, 'but I tell you this, not for the sake of all the maids upon the earth will I stand to be beaten with a stick like a scullion.' 'And there I do not blame you, lad,' said her father, more kindly.