...might be able to prevail upon her to remain with them j. yet he doubted the possibility of doing so. He / was too well acquainted with human nature, not to know that the wretch who hopes not a mitigation of his woes, flies from them he most loves, feels an anxious...

...understood English very well, and thus he knew the meaning of all that the ladies had been saying ; and he was too well acquainted with human nature not to know that the end of such a consultation and deliberation as that would be the purchase of the bracelet, and...