[persuasion]

'All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'
She could not immediately have uttered another sentence; her heart was too full, her breath too much oppressed.
'You are a good soul,' cried Captain Harville, putting his hand on her arm, quite affectionately. 'There is no quarrelling with you.'

Jane Austen