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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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they had both been out some time;
they were gone to Hartfield.
she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping.
she would be pleased to wait a moment, and then ushered her in too soon. The aunt and niece seemed both escaping into the adjoining room. Jane she had a distinct glimpse of, looking extremely ill; and, before the door had shut them out, she heard Miss Bates saying,
their being at home, to wait in the passage, and send up her name.—
I should not find his master at home,
He did not know what was come to his master lately,
but he could hardly ever get the speech of him.