A man who wills fiercely to win the heart of a weak and vapourish woman MUST succeed, if he have opportunity enough.
'Terrible man!' said Lady Lyndon, shrinking from me as soon as I had done speaking (indeed, I was at a loss for words, and thinking of another speech to make to her)--'terrible man! leave me.' I saw that I had made an impression on her, from those very words.

'If she lets me into the house to-morrow,' said I, 'she is mine.' As I went downstairs I put ten guineas into the hand of the hall-porter, who looked quite astonished at such a gift.
'It is to repay you for the trouble of opening the door to me,' said I; 'you will have to do so often.'.