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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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her brother, Captain Wentworth, is just returned to England, or paid off, or something, and is coming to see them almost directly;
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Louisa Musgrove speaking as Mrs. Croft and Admiral Croft
  • Link to text in chapter 6
  • Text ID: 00557
a seat to any lady who might be particularly tired; it would save her a full mile, and they were going through Uppercross.
themselves to be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county, and probably might not be at home again before Lady Russell would be removing to Bath.
Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend. There had been the charm. She had sought him. Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot,
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Narrator as Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth Elliot as Colonel Wallis
  • Link to text in chapter 15
  • Text ID: 01588
her having been a very fine woman.
to convey anything to you;
it is to be put into the marriage articles when you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay.