A fine firm fellow, with a will of your own.

With resolution,' said my aunt, shaking her cap at me, and clenching her hand.

'With determination.

With character, Trot--with strength of character that is not to be influenced, except on good reason, by anybody, or by anything.
That's what I want you to be.

That's what your father and mother might both have been, Heaven knows, and been the better for it.' I intimated that I hoped I should be what she described.
'That you may begin, in a small way, to have a reliance upon yourself, and to act for yourself,' said my aunt, 'I shall send you upon your trip, alone.