I was in earnest when I told you that I would not come into that body, and really believed that I should adhere to that determination; but I have acted like a girl addressed by a gentleman she does not positively dislike, but is unwilling to marry.
Beveridge uses a metaphor to describe his internal conflict about joining a political body he initially resisted.
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