I Prize the Cloudy, Tearing Sky

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

— Humphrey Bogart’s letter to Lauren Bacall

Your grace abounds in deepest waters Your sovereign hand Will be my guide Where feet may fail and fear surrounds me You’ve never failed and You won’t

I think you will agree I am pretty eloquent and surprisingly tall for a 6 year old.

If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you; you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love. I love… I love you.

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His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, contemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference, he did not change one whit. She could not make him change. He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

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