It was, at any rate,
her peculiarity to attach to herself, by bonds which could not easily be
severed, those who had once thought that they might be able to win her
love. An attempt has been made to show how firm and determined were the
affections of Harry Annesley, and how absolutely he trusted in her word
when once it had been given to him. He had seemed to think that when she
had even nodded to him, in answer to his assertion that he desired her
to be his wife, all his trouble as regarded her heart had been off his
mind.
There might be infinite trouble as to time,--as to ten years, three
years, or even one year; trouble in inducing her to promise that she
would become his wife in opposition to her mother; but he had felt sure
that she never would be the wife of any one else. How he had at last
succeeded in mitigating the opposition of her mother, so as to make the
three years, or even the one year, appear to himself an altogether
impossible delay, the reader knows. How he at last contrived to have his
own way altogether, so that, as Florence told him, she was merely a ball
in his hand, the reader will have to know very shortly. But not a shade
of doubt had ever clouded Harry's mind as to his eventual success since
she had nodded to him at Mrs.
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