If you will look again, you will see that I have these personal considerations still to urge before I finish my letter.

You don't know your brother and his wife as well as I do, if you doubt their answer.

I believe they have courage enough and heart enough to say Yes.' Henry submitted without being convinced.
He was a man who disliked all eccentric departures from custom and routine; and he felt especially suspicious of the change proposed in the life of Agnes.

With new interests to occupy her mind, she might be less favourably disposed to listen to him, on the next occasion when he urged his suit.

The influence of the 'lonely useless existence' of which she complained, was distinctly an influence in his favour.