Sometimes she stuffed it into her mouth and bit it to keep herself from screaming.

Once--before I was seven--I ran into their room and shouted out, and tried to fight for her.

He was going out, and had his riding whip in his hand, and he caught hold of me and struck me with it--until he was tired." Betty stood upright.
"What! What! What!" she cried out.
He merely nodded his head shortly.

She saw what the thing had been by the way his face lost colour.
"Of course he said it was because I was impudent, and needed punishment," he said.

"He said she had encouraged me in American impudence.