March 3, 2008 · 12:54 pm

You pierce my soul

I don’t know how it is that we haven’t featured Captain Wentworth’s letter here yet. <swoon…> Happy Monday, dear readers!


“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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One Response to You pierce my soul

  1. Julie
    March 7, 2011 at 4:26 am

    Capt Wentworth’s words “you pierce my soul” gave me shivers up my spine when I first heard them - soooo romantic!! Even reading them again does the same thing. Jane Austen sure knew about love…..