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"How will the strong-minded Tudor lady like to see herself revived in that fashion, if she can see it?" asked Miss Garscube. "She'll like it well, judging by myself," said George: "that's true fame.
"This family paper was committed to my care by Sir Charles Baskerville, whose sudden and tragic death some three months ago created so much excitement in Devonshire. I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant. He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself.
His father had been a 'gentleman's gentleman, and Paulo followed his father's business and became a gentleman's gentleman too. George Paulo was almost entirely English in his nature, thanks to a strong-minded mother, who ruled the late Manuel Paulo with a kindly severity.
"Then I trust, my dear madam," said I, hasting to her relief by affording her an opportunity of being generous, "that you will allow me to put down your name as an annual subscriber." Miss Flouncer, being a very strong-minded woman, had recovered herself very suddenly, and replied with calm deliberation, accompanied by an undulation
It was thus the reformation was checked in the first instance. Its supporters were the strong-minded and intelligent; and they never, and least of all in those days, formed the mass. Superstition and bigotry had enervated the intellects of the majority; and the high resolve of those with whom the great work commenced was mixed with a severity that materially retarded its progress.
"Has anybody been calling you so? If so, tell me who it is." "Never you mind, stranger. Am I old and wrinkled?" "Certainly she's out of her mind," thought Miles. "I must humor her." "I think you are a very good-looking woman," he said, soothingly. "No, I'm not," said the strong-minded lady, "but at the same time I ain't a scarecrow." "Certainly not." "Don't talk too much, stranger.
"I don't know," replied Elisabeth; "I fancy it depends a good deal upon whom I am talking to. I find as a rule it is a good plan to let a weak man think you are obedient, and a strong man think you are wilful, if you want men to find you interesting." "And aren't you strong-minded enough to be indifferent to the fact as to whether men find you interesting or the reverse?" "Oh, dear, no!
In the teeth of popular prejudice, Bayard Taylor has had the courage to take for his heroine a woman "strong-minded," austere in her faith, past her first youth, given to public speaking, and imbued, we might almost say to stubbornness, with ultra ideas of "woman's rights."
Sylvia could not recall a time when she had not heard that warning. "Be careful, dear, when you express an opinion, always end it with a question: 'Don't you think so? or something like that, otherwise, men may get the idea that you are 'STRONG-MINDED'!" Sylvia, in her girlhood, had heard vague hints and rumours which now she was able to interpret in the light of her experience.
Thank God, you are strong-minded, and Mary, our kind, good Mary, will be near, to comfort and assist you. I am growing weaker, but there is one more thing I wish to say." He paused, and for the first time Florence spoke. "My father, tell me every wish; fear nothing for me, there is nothing I cannot bear now."
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