First-person-plural point of view notwithstanding, there's a dated quality to Brown's novel (in which hair is likely to be called tresses, books tomes and bars watering holes; where people pad softly, blink back tears, bark laughs) and a striking absence of contemporary references.
"'I just hope they get it out,' he continues, the tears softly rising in his face.
"But softly now; you are tearing the lace of my sleeve.
Not sort of softly choked up, or tearing a little.
"It's hard," she said softly, on the cusp of tears.
"It's things like that that make you think of him," he said softly, his eyes rimmed with tears.
Following the ceremony, held at dusk at the English-style manor house owned by the Franks, the guests, who included Clark Terry and the author Sheila Lukins, listened as Alison Krauss gave a command performance, breaking into tears as she softly rendered "When You Say Nothing at All".
After you do that brush it out softly being careful not to tear the hair tie.
And, after a while, she stopped crying and, her face slick with tears, kissed the man softly on the lips.
After the second proposal, Elizabeth sheds tears (again), as Darcy softly delivers the play's final lines: DARCY (Moved to his depths. Takes her in his arms) My cruel… my kind… oh, my lovely Elizabeth!
