His manner, now, reminded me of qualities I had noticed in him when professionally engaged amongst the poor, the guilty, and the suffering, in the Basse-Ville: he looked at once determined, enduring, and sweet-tempered.
" "I did not know who you were, but I was determined to find out.
I shrank back into the darkest corner and cocked the pistol in my pocket, determined not to discover myself until I had an opportunity of seeing something of the stranger.
Fortunately we were not discouraged, and we determined to try again.
He had taken so much to heart Felicity's taunt that his stories were all true that he had determined to have a really-truly false one in the next number.
But her face, if pale, was very determined.
They had all come ashore and had been buried in Markdale graveyard; but he was determined to take them up and carry them home for burial.
He had left us grimly determined to confess to his father the dark secret of his Presbyterianism, and we were anxious to know what the result had been.
He laid determined siege to Cecily's young heart by all the methods known to love-lorn swains.
Cecily, determined to do her duty even in the face of such fearful odds as Great-aunt Eliza's deafness, dragged a ponderous, plush-covered album from its corner and proceeded to display and explain the family photographs.
"It will be a success if we are determined to succeed," I said.
But," said Miss Cornelia, with the air of one determined to take the plunge and have it over, "I will tell you something else.
They expected he'd take on turrible, for he's been dreadful determined to live, and been making no end of plans for the fall.
Of course, when the men saw we were determined they stopped fighting and went to work, man-like, as soon as they saw they had to, or quit bossing.
" Miss Cornelia looked so grimly determined that Anne could almost see her with a spade in her hand.
" "No," she persisted, "I won't: I can't tell what to do to make you talk to me; and you are determined not to understand.
" At first, on hearing this account from Zillah, I determined to leave my situation, take a cottage, and get Catherine to come and live with me: but Mr.
However, he felt that his will had better be altered: instead of leaving Catherine's fortune at her own disposal, he determined to put it in the hands of trustees for her use during life, and for her children, if she had any, after her.
I was cogitating what the mystery might be, and determined Catherine should never suffer to benefit him or any one else, by my good will; when, hearing a rustle among the ling, I looked up and saw Mr.
' He did not reckon on being answered so: but I wouldn't turn back; and the morrow was the second day on which I stayed at home, nearly determined to visit him no more.
