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"Distasteful! and like you again! I think I shall like you again,

and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only LIKE, but

LOVE you--with truth, fervour, constancy"

"Yet are you not capricious, sir?"

"To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil

when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts--when they open

to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility,

coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent

tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but

does not break--at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent-

-I am ever tender and true"

"Had you ever experience of such a character, sir? Did you ever

love such an one?"

"I love it now"

"But before me: if I, indeed, in any respect come up to your

difficult standard?"

"I never met your likeness Jane, you please me, and you master me-

-you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you i the soft, silken skein round er, it sends

a thrill up my arm to my heart I am influenced--conquered; and the

influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo