I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane AustenI 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 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. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
Tags: romance
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
Jane AustenReflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.
Jane AustenTags: reflection
Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
Jane AustenTags: relaxation
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane AustenLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenTags: humor
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
Jane AustenYou deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane AustenMarriage is indeed a maneuvering business.
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