assumed

Worst of all, he speedily assumed the same attitude towards my daughter, Alice, and spoke to her more than once in a way which, fortunately, she is too innocent to understand.

Morrel, with a mournful shake of his head, “the thing has assumed a more serious aspect than I expected.”

Scarcely was the captain’s breath out of his body when he assumed the command without consulting anyone, and he caused us to lose a day and a half at the Island of Elba, instead of making for Marseilles direct.”

But,” said Caderousse, again smiling with the disagreeable expression he had before assumed, “you must pay for it—you understand?”