You must forgive me dear reader for spoiling the book for you, but I cannot bear not to put Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne here in my blog. For my heart took wings, smiling like a fool upon reading the letter.
I must advice you to stop and read no more if you want to thoroughly enjoy the book for the said letter near the end is the summit of all pleasures(this story builds and builds and then explodes).
Miss A.E --
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 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 have not waited even this 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 ward, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
There! Such satisfaction to finally read Captain Wentworth's feelings for Anne; my heart and soul revel in Anne's happiness. haha!
I was smiling throughout the book, very much amused of the tug and pull of emotion it has put me through. Jane Austen is a master of telling mundane everyday life, and situations that can happen most likely to people. She tells it as it is, as it should, yet amazingly well.
My only regret is that I wish i could have read it along with Adriana of Classicalquest. My happiness would have been doubled. But, yeah, this book leaves one satisfied and I am very glad I read it.
