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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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those wishes, however openly or artfully spoken, could influence a young man so totally independent of everyone.
They contained no actual complaint, nor was there any revival of past occurrences, or any communication of present suffering. But in all, and in almost every line of each, there was a want of that cheerfulness which had been used to characterise her style, and which, proceeding from the serenity of a mind at ease with itself and kindly disposed towards everyone, had been scarcely ever clouded.