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…qu’il n’eût tenu qu’à lui de lire dans le cœur de

You can find for instance “it had been due only to him“

Here the pronoun

qu’il n’eût tenu qu’à lui

Is impersonal like in

Il est 10h.

It’s 10 o’clock.

So your translation was correct, you can translate it by It.

It is entirely up to him.

Another manner of expressing nearly the same idea as qu’il n’eût tenu qu’à lui is

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