"It is," said Caleb; "but it is quite fixed.
" Will thought that her face looked just as it did when she first shook hands with him in Rome; for her widow's cap, fixed in her bonnet, had gone off with it, and he could see that she had lately been shedding tears.
If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind.
Even when he had fixed on what he should do, there would be the task of telling his father.
" Sir James looked at the carpet for a minute in silence, and then lifting his eyes suddenly fixed them on Mr.
Garth, looking round at the five pair of eyes, all fixed on the parents.
Ladislaw wishes to have some fixed occupation.
"Whatever you wish, my darling, when the day is fixed.
" The preamble was felt to be rather long, and several besides Solomon shook their heads pathetically, looking on the ground: all eyes avoided meeting other eyes, and were chiefly fixed either on the spots in the table-cloth or on Mr.
Bulstrode fixed her eyes on him, with an unmistakable purpose of warning, if not of rebuke.
She fixed her eyes on Fred, saying— "I suppose you have asked your father for the rest of the money and he has refused you.
Forms both pale and glowing took possession of her young sense, and fixed themselves in her memory even when she was not thinking of them, preparing strange associations which remained through her after-years.
She was not looking at the sculpture, probably not thinking of it: her large eyes were fixed dreamily on a streak of sunlight which fell across the floor.
Minchin for his part liked to keep the mental windows open and objected to fixed limits; if the Unitarian brewer jested about the Athanasian Creed, Dr.
Whatever was not problematical and suspected about this young man—for example, a certain showiness as to foreign ideas, and a disposition to unsettle what had been settled and forgotten by his elders—was positively unwelcome to a physician whose standing had been fixed thirty years before by a treatise on Meningitis, of which at least one copy marked "own" was bound in calf.
He was certainly a happy fellow at this time: to be seven-and-twenty, without any fixed vices, with a generous resolution that his action should be beneficent, and with ideas in his brain that made life interesting quite apart from the cultus of horseflesh and other mystic rites of costly observance, which the eight hundred pounds left him after buying his practice would certainly not have gone far in paying for.
Bulstrode had also a deferential bending attitude in listening, and an apparently fixed attentiveness in his eyes which made those persons who thought themselves worth hearing infer that he was seeking the utmost improvement from their discourse.
For in truth, as the day fixed for his marriage came nearer, Mr.
She fixed the little candle end on a broken brick near the red-jerseyed boy's feet.
" She stood by the back door reflecting on these gloomy possibilities, her eyes fixed on the water-butt.
