I know that she loves me; for a woman who once loves, loves always.

Circumstances may have cooled, even hardened, the surface of her feelings, but her heart beneath is warm toward me still.

There may be many reasons why she would not voluntarily leave her home for the one I promised her, however magnificent; but, if removed without her own consent, after the change, she may find in my love the highest felicity her heart could desire." "My faith is not strong," said Leach, "and never has been, in the stability of love.

But you have always manifested a weakness in this direction; and, I suppose, it runs in the blood.

Probably, if you carry the girl off, (not so easy a thing, by-the-way, nor a safe operation to attempt,) you can make all smooth with her by doing something handsome for her father." "No doubt of it.