He might be overcome with horror, fear, remorse--a dozen different emotions, but anger would not be among them.

And further, a man who had committed a crime and intended to deny it later, would not proclaim his feelings in quite that blatant manner.

Young Gaylord had not injured anyone; he himself had been injured.

He was mad through and through, and he didn't care who knew it.

He expended--you will remember--the most of his belligerency on his horse on the way home, and you found him in the summer house undergoing the natural reaction.