"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever."
Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne, in the Musgrove's room at the White Hart in Bath
Persuasion, volume 2, chapter 11
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| Ciarán Hinds as Capt. Wentworth in Persuasion 1995 |
It is funny how most of Jane Austen's male character likes to explain themselves via letter. I find it somehow romantic in a certain way.
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