The one achievement now essentially necessary to his happiness was the possession of Florence Mountjoy; but it certainly never occurred to him that he was more likely to obtain this because he was six feet high, or because his hair waved becomingly.
"I have supposed so," he said, in answer to her last assertion.
"You ought to have known it for certain.

I mean to say that, had I ever been engaged to my cousin, I should have been miserable at such a moment as this.

I never should have given him up because of the gross injustice done to him about the property.

But his disappearance in this dreadful way would, I think, have killed me.

As it is, I can think of nothing else, because he is my cousin." "It is very dreadful," said Harry.