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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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no opportunity of detaining them.
she would get him at last;
Two obstacles of the five being thus removed,
Bingley was every thing that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.
unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.
they never sat there after dinner,
to take some refreshment;
why Lady Catherine would not come in again and rest herself.
he was rising every hour in his esteem.
she submitted to the change without much reluctance.
her poor son gone for ever,
it might, that it probably would, turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting, once or twice, after their coming back from Clifton -- a very fine young man -- but they could not say whether it was seven or eight years ago,
poor Dick,
poor Dick's having been six months under his care,
hope there would be now no occasion for putting Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry to think that the cottage party, probably, would not like to leave the little boy, to give him the meeting.
of his studying himself to death.
Charles might not be learned and bookish enough to please Lady Russell, and that therefore, she persuaded Anne to refuse him."
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Lousia Musgrove speaking as Mr. Musgrove and Mrs. Musgrove
  • Link to text in chapter 10
  • Text ID: 01024
after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
Louisa was now recovering apace. Her mother could even think of her being able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters went to school again. The Harvilles had promised to come with her and stay at Uppercross, whenever she returned. Captain Wentworth was gone, for the present, to see his brother in Shropshire.
"now Miss Anne was come, she could not suppose herself at all wanted;"
is so afraid of her being fatigued by the journey,
she knew nothing of the matter.
Mrs Charles Musgrove, and her fine little boys,
But the rain was also a mere trifle
her boots were so thick! much thicker than Miss Anne's;
her perfect readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it,
Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon,
the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her there till they returned.
there had been no fall in the case;
Anne had not at any time lately slipped down, and got a blow on her head;
she was perfectly convinced of having had no fall;
finding her better at night.
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.”
there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.”
he is a very fine young man,
and likely to do very well.”
she was ready to go.
Young people will be young people,
I am never within.”
it might have been productive of much unpleasantness to her; that it was what they could never have voluntarily suffered; and that, in forcing her on such a measure, General Tilney had acted neither honourably nor feelingly — neither as a gentleman nor as a parent. Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will,
they should call on Mrs. Allen.
the happiness of having such steady well-wishers as Mr. and Mrs. Allen, and the very little consideration which the neglect or unkindness of slight acquaintance like the Tilneys ought to have with her, while she could preserve the good opinion and affection of her earliest friends.
such an attention to her daughter,
this good-natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time,
it probable, as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours, that he might have some explanation to give of his father’s behaviour, which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to Catherine,
there being nothing like practice.
being unjust to his merit before, in believing him incapable of generosity.
her beloved Elinor should not be exposed another week to such insinuations.
she was going into Devonshire. —
It was within four miles northward of Exeter.

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