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Several interviews took place afterwards between Alice and Henry
Woodward; and after each interview her parents sought her opinion
of him, and desired to know whether she was beginning to think more
favorably of him than she had hitherto done. Still, however, came the
same reply. Every interview only increased her repugnance to the match,
and her antipathy to the man. At length she consented to allow him one
last interview--the last, she asserted, which she would ever afford him
on the subject, and he accordingly presented himself to know her
final determination. Not that from what came out from their former
conversations he had any grounds, as a reasonable man, to expect a
change of opinion on her part; but as the property was his object, he
resolved to leave nothing undone to overcome her prejudice against him
if he could. They were, accordingly, left in the drawing-room to discuss
the matter as best they might, but with a hope on the part of her
parents that, knowing, as she did, how earnestly their hearts were fixed
upon her marriage with him, she might, if only for their sakes, renounce
her foolish antipathy, ard be prevailed upon, by his ardor and his
eloquence, to consent at last.
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