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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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it could not be. A woman married only six months ago; a man professing himself devoted, even engaged to another; that other her near relation; the whole family, both families connected as they were by tie upon tie; all friends, all intimate together! It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of!
His unsettled affections, wavering with his vanity, Maria's decided attachment, and no sufficient principle on either side, gave it possibility: Miss Crawford's letter stampt it a fact.
What would be the consequence? Whom would it not injure? Whose views might it not affect? Whose peace would it not cut up for ever? Miss Crawford, herself, Edmund; but it was dangerous, perhaps, to tread such ground.
The mother's sufferings, the father's;
Julia's, Tom's, Edmund's;
They were the two on whom it would fall most horribly. Sir Thomas's parental solicitude and high sense of honour and decorum, Edmund's upright principles, unsuspicious temper, and genuine strength of feeling,
it scarcely possible for them to support life and reason under such disgrace;
as far as this world alone was concerned, the greatest blessing to every one of kindred with Mrs. Rushworth would be instant annihilation.
To-morrow! to leave Portsmouth to-morrow!
She was,
in the greatest danger of being exquisitely happy, while so many were miserable.
The evil which brought such good to her!
To be going so soon, sent for so kindly, sent for as a comfort, and with leave to take Susan,
it to be terrible and grievous,
Within twenty-four hours she was hoping to be gone; her father and mother must be spoken to, Susan prepared, everything got ready.
He so near her, and in misery.
he should order the carriage to the door in half an hour.
their having breakfasted and being quite ready in half an hour.
silver forks, napkins, and finger-glasses.
nothing but ill-humour was to be expected from aunt Norris;
she could never do enough for one who seemed so much to want her.
He could have no comfort but in Edmund. Every other child must be racking his heart. His displeasure against herself
would now be done away. She should be justified. Mr. Crawford would have fully acquitted her conduct in refusing him; but this, though most material to herself, would be poor consolation to Sir Thomas. Her uncle's displeasure was terrible to her; but what could her justification or her gratitude and attachment do for him? His stay must be on Edmund alone.
That Edmund must be for ever divided from Miss Crawford
and yet, till she knew that he felt the same, her own conviction was insufficient.
If he would now speak to her with the unreserve which had sometimes been too much for her before, it would be most consoling; but that
was not to be. She seldom saw him: never alone. He probably avoided being alone with her. What was to be inferred? That his judgment submitted to all his own peculiar and bitter share of this family affliction, but that it was too keenly felt to be a subject of the slightest communication. This must be his state. He yielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech. Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford's name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been.
'I do not mean to defend Henry at your sister's expense.'
her brother's folly in being drawn on by a woman whom he had never cared for, to do what must lose him the woman he adored; but still more the folly of poor Maria, in sacrificing such a situation, plunging into such difficulties, under the idea of being really loved by a man who had long ago made his indifference clear.
The want of common discretion, of caution: his going down to Richmond for the whole time of her being at Twickenham; her putting herself in the power of a servant;
"And what,"
"what could you say?"
the loss of such a —.
'He has thrown away,'
'such a woman as he will never see again. She would have fixed him; she would have made him happy for ever.'
'Why would not she have him? It is all her fault. Simple girl! I shall never forgive her. Had she accepted him as she ought, they might now have been on the point of marriage, and Henry would have been too happy and too busy to want any other object. He would have taken no pains to be on terms with Mrs. Rushworth again. It would have all ended in a regular standing flirtation, in yearly meetings at Sotherton and Everingham.'
"Cruel!"
"quite cruel. At such a moment to give way to gaiety, to speak with lightness, and to you! Absolute cruelty."
"Did you?"
what remained now to be done was to bring about a marriage between them.
'A pretty good lecture, upon my word. Was it part of your last sermon? At this rate you will soon reform everybody at Mansfield and Thornton Lacey; and when I hear of you next, it may be as a celebrated preacher in some great society of Methodists, or as a missionary into foreign parts.'
'Mr. Bertram,'
'Mr. Bertram,'