Jane Austen a-t-il vraiment dit « You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope » ?

Jane Austen a-t-il vraiment dit « You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope » ?

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"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 see …
Persuasion — Jane Austen, Chapter 23 · ¶959 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #105 · source

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