Persuasion [with Biographical Introduction]

by Jane Austen

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

Captain Wentworth,

Captain Harville,

and of an artist!

On the contents of that letter depended all which this world could do for her.

So he *was* listening! When Anne said, “All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."

I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me.

So he *was* listening!

Overheard Anne saying this: “God forbid that I should undervalue the warm and faithful feelings of any of my fellow-creatures! I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by woman….”

Half and hour's solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her;

Haha

It was overpowering happiness.

Charles, Mary, and Henrietta

Mrs. Musgrove,

Sarah

Haha

them

them

them

her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.

she could not be long ungrateful; he was sacrificing an engagement at a gunsmith's, to be of use to her;

apparent.

Haha

not repulsively.

Haha

Haha Charles knows? Question

Glowing and lovely in sensibility and happiness,

"I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you do now.

Tell me if, when I returned to England in the year eight, with a few thousand pounds, and was posted into the Laconia, if I had then written to you, would you have answered my letter? Would you, in short, have renewed the engagement then?"

I was proud, too proud to ask again. I did not understand you.

This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.

I have been used to the gratification of believing myself to earn every blessing that I enjoyed.

I have valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards.

"I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being ...