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He projected a scene, following expressions of anxiety on account of old Vernon and his future settlement: and then Clara maintaining her doggedness, to which he was now so accustomed that he could not conceive a change in it says he: "If you determine on breaking I give you back your word on one condition."
There was doggedness and resolution enough, but Braun was deathly white and if his face was contorted and it was it was not with the lust to batter and injure and maim. It was something else. The two men faced each other. And then the stocky, swarthy Braun swung at Haney. The blow had sting in it but nothing more.
"Sir," said Fenner, civilly but doggedly, "we are come to this now, that one must die, for the others to live. And the greater part of us are for casting lots all round, and let every man, and every woman too, take their chance. That is fair, Sam, isn't it?" "It is fair," said Cooper, with a terrible doggedness. "But it is hard," he added. "Harder that seven should die for one," said Mackintosh.
Duncannon turned dusky red under his tan. "Perhaps I have," he said, with a certain, doggedness. Herne, with his back to the light, was watching him. "Well," he said finally, "we've served our turn. The battalion is going Home!" Duncannon gave a great start. "Already?" "After two years' service," the other reminded him grimly. Duncannon fell silent, considering, the matter with bent brows.
Every morning, quietly and doggedly, she put herself on the staff, and every morning was as quietly and doggedly dismissed from office. Doggedness being an unusual trait in a black fellow, the homestead became interested. "Never say die, little 'un," the Maluka laughed each morning; but Dan was inclined to bet on Nellie.
"If I find myself over there I shall certainly call," he said, with an air of doggedness. "Oh, very well, then, you shall," she said merrily. "You won't embarrass us, not even if we have to ask you to dinner." An hour or two later the good news came, brought by Mrs. Rooke in person.
Were he to follow the doctor's advice, he would be trimming his sails, so as to catch any slant of a breeze that might be favourable to him. There could be no doggedness in a character that would submit to such trimming.
If we are no longer to talk with the old friendliness, it's far better we shouldn't discuss things such as this. 'Well, practically you have answered. Of course I remember those words of yours that you refer to. Whether you were right or wrong doesn't affect what I say. He spoke with a dull doggedness, as though mental fatigue did not allow him to say more.
To-morrow morning we are going down into Somerset, to Clevedon, to find a house. 'I thought you had given up that idea. 'Whether I had or not doesn't matter. In the determination to appear, and be, energetic, he spoke with a rough obstinacy, a doggedness that now and then became violence. 'I am decided on it now. There's a train to Bristol at ten-twenty.
With a quickening heartbeat she awaited an outburst, a retort that would end everything. But he answered quietly, in the same toneless voice: "No, I am not married." She caught at the loop-hole it seemed to offer. "If there is no bar " she began eagerly, but he cut her short. "I have done with all that sort of thing," he said harshly. "Why?" she persisted, with a doggedness that matched his own.
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