Mandelbrot, who did the experiment with stock exchanges prices, for example, noted that although the outcomes were variable, there were in fact certain constancy.
She had a wondrous constancy to old attachments: even Heathcliff kept his hold on her affections unalterably; and young Linton, with all his superiority, found it difficult to make an equally deep impression.
'If, therefore, an excuse for not keeping his promise, should come to his friend within a few days, ' she added, 'I shall know how to understand it. I shall then give over every expectation, every wish of his constancy.