The way she upset that horse on Osborne,
completely obliterating him, and at the same time getting out of the
way of that little simian Count, in spite of all I could do to place
her under obligations to both of them, was what the ancients would
have called a caution. She has made a slave of me forever, and I
venture to predict that if you don't hurry up and get her into a
book, somebody else will; and whoever does will make a name for
himself alongside of which that of Smith will sink into oblivion."
"Count on me for that," said he. "'Faint heart never won fair lady,'
and I don't intend to stop climbing just because I fear a few more
falls."
CHAPTER VI: ANOTHER CHAPTER FROM HARLEY
"Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
I'll have her,--but I will not keep her long."
- "Richard III."
There was no doubt about it that Harley, true to his purpose, was
making a good fight to conquer without compulsion, and appreciated as
much as I the necessity of reducing his heroine to concrete form as
speedily as possible, lest some other should prove more successful,
and so deprive him of the laurels for which he had worked so hard and
suffered so much.
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