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.

这回他下定了决心，被闯开，他便从雉堞顶上栽下去抓住一两个人同归于尽（他个南人，个子虽小，复仇心却很重）。