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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“I do not cough for my own amusement,”
“And my aunt Phillips is sure it would do me a great deal of good,”
“I cannot see why Mrs. Forster should not ask me as well as Lydia,”
“Though I am not her particular friend. I have just as much right to be asked as she has, and more too, for I am two years older.”
“I am not going to run away, papa,”
“If I should ever go to Brighton, I would behave better than Lydia.”
“There is a gentleman with him, mamma,”
“who can it be?”
“La!”
“it looks just like that man that used to be with him before. Mr. what's-his-name. That tall, proud man .”
“What is the matter mamma? What do you keep winking at me for? What am I to do?”
“Mr. Darcy, I am a very selfish creature; and, for the sake of giving relief to my own feelings, care not how much I may be wounding yours. I can no longer help thanking you for your unexampled kindness to my poor sister. Ever since I have known it, I have been most anxious to acknowledge to you how gratefully I feel it. Were it known to the rest of my family, I should not have merely my own gratitude to express.”
“You must not blame my aunt. Lydia's thoughtlessness first betrayed to me that you had been concerned in the matter; and, of course, I could not rest till I knew the particulars. Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them.”