“—oh, Miss Hale!” continued he, lowering his voice to such a tender intensity of passion that she shivered and trembled before him, “to think circumstance so wrought, that whenever I exult in existence henceforward, I may say to myself, ‘All this gladness in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this keen sense of being, I owe to her!’ And it doubles the gladness, it makes the pride glow, it sharpens the sense of existence till I hardly know if it is pain or pleasure, to think that I owe it to one—nay, you must, you shall hear”—said he, stepping forwards with stern determination—“to one whom I love, as I do not believe man ever loved woman before.”

#john thornton it’s a good think you are fictional or else i would be forced to murder you on the grounds that you are too perfect for thi… #s world

(Source: mandoomonk)