Sentence:  Mr. Weston seems an excellent creature—quite a first-rate favourite with me already, I assure you. And she appears so truly good—there is something so motherly and kind-hearted about her, that it <WSD>wins</WSD> upon one directly. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with "over").