A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never. That she is set to marry her toadying cousin, Mr Collins, only makes the travesty worse. I must go, uncertain of my fate but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility 999 likes Like Know your own happiness. 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. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility tags: love 1172 likes Like I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. 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. This is not pleasant to you, Emma-and it is very far from pleasant to me but I must, I will,-I will tell you truths while I can, satisfied with proving myself your friend by very faithful counsel, and trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach.

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