I mean a very different person, and, for all I can see, with some reason to hope for success." "Oh, as to that, we flatter ourselves the thing does not present any very considerable difficulties." "As how, pray ?" "Why, of course, like all such matters, a very decisive determination to be, to do, and to suffer, as Lindley Murray says, carries the day.

Tell her she's an angel every day for three weeks.

She may laugh a little at first, but she'll believe it in the end.

Tell her that you have not the slightest prospect of obtaining her affections, but still persist in loving her.
That, finally, you must die from the effects of despair, etc., but rather like the notion of it than otherwise.

That you know she has no fortune; that you haven't a sixpence; and who should marry, if people whose position in the world was similar did not ?" "But halt; pray, how are you to get time and place for all such interesting conversations ?" "Time and place! Good Heavens, what a question! Is not every hour of the twenty-four the fittest?
Is not every place the most suitable?
A sudden pause in the organ of St.Patrick's did, it is true, catch me once in a declaration of love, but the choir came in to my aid and drowned the lady's answer.