“I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.”

—  Henry James, book The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

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American novelist, short story author, and literary critic 1843–1916

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