Perhaps not so shockingly to fall for him, especially not after you have read his letter to Anne. Some people claim that Jane Austen's novels are boring and without passion, but after reading that letter, I beg the difference. It's filled with passion. Read for yourselves:
"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 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."
If that's not passionate, I don't know what is.I'm swooning right now. It is really a shame that we do not get to know more of his feelings in the book. I would have liked a chapter dedicated just to him, instead of Anne all the time. But, she is the main character, I guess. Perhaps I must write his story myself? :P
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| And he can ride a horse! *drools* |
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