“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“...autumn, that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness...”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago... I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“...there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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