retaliative

this time resolved, if his door was broken in (he was a small Southern man of retaliative temperament), to pitch himself head foremost over the parapet, and crush a man or two below.

这回下定了决心，若门被闯开，便从雉堞顶上栽下去抓住一两人同归于尽（南人，小，复仇心却很重）。