You may imprison my body, but you cannot conquer my mind.

Marry Mr.Grimes! And is this the way to bring me to your purpose?
Every hardship I suffer puts still further distant the end for which I am thus unjustly treated.
You are not used to have your will contradicted! When did I ever contradict it?
And, in a concern that is so completely my own, shall my will go for nothing?
Would you lay down this rule for yourself, and suffer no other creature to take the benefit of it?
I want nothing of you: how dare you refuse me the privilege of a reasonable being, to live unmolested in poverty and innocence?
What sort of a man do you show yourself, you that lay claim to the respect and applause of every one that knows you ?" The spirited reproaches of Emily had at first the effect to fill Mr.
Tyrrel with astonishment, and make him feel abashed and overawed in the presence of this unprotected innocent.

But his confusion was the result of surprise.

When the first emotion wore off, he cursed himself for being moved by her expostulations; and was ten times more exasperated against her, for daring to defy his resentment at a time when she had every thing to fear.

His despotic and unforgiving propensities stimulated him to a degree little short of madness.