Had [Captain Wentworth] wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the independence which alone had been wanting.
The thought of Anne Elliot, 21 years old and full of trembling hope, treasuring a newspaper clipping telling of the heroic capture of such and such French frigate by Captain Wentworth of H.M. Sloop Asp, and wondering whether he would now return into Somersetshire is breaking my heart. He did not come. She knew him to be in a position to renew his addresses and yet he did not come. Next she heard of him would have been an entry in a navy list declaring him posted to the Laconia. And at twenty-two she received a proposal from Charles Musgrove. Which she refused, for a man who left her in heartsick resentment and did not return to her.
“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?”
“Would I!” was all her answer; but the accent was decisive enough.
“Good God!” he cried, “you would!”
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