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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"Shall I go too? Had not I better go too? Will not it be right for me to go too?"
"I do not say he is not gentleman-like, considering; but you should tell your father he is not above five feet eight, or he will be expecting a well-looking man."
"If I must say what I think,"
"in my opinion it is very disagreeable to be always rehearsing. It is having too much of a good thing. I am not so fond of acting as I was at first. I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing."