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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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it was left you conditionally only, and at the will of the present patron.”
there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present;
you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders,
the business had been compromised accordingly.”
his dear sister Elizabeth,
she had said enough to keep him quiet.
capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged;
the greater probability of his coming there with his friend's permission, or being bold enough to come without it.
In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival,
her spirits were affected by it.
They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them.
how absolutely necessary such an attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield.
though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did.
the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.
to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend,
To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again,
his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure.
more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps he could not in her mother's presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt.
It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.
her mother owed to the latter the preservation of her favourite daughter from irremediable infamy,
how Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner did,
He was not seated by her; perhaps that was the reason of his silence; but it had not been so in Derbyshire. There he had talked to her friends, when he could not to herself.
he did,
this to be levelled at Mr. Darcy,
whether he meant to make any stay in the country at present.
A few weeks,
such unnecessary, such officious attention! Were the same fair prospect to arise at present as had flattered them a year ago, every thing,
would be hastening to the same vexatious conclusion.
years of happiness could not make Jane or herself amends for moments of such painful confusion.
how much the beauty of her sister re-kindled the admiration of her former lover. When first he came in, he had spoken to her but little; but every five minutes seemed to be giving her more of his attention.
as handsome as she had been last year; as good natured, and as unaffected, though not quite so chatty.
no difference should be perceived in her at all,
she talked as much as ever.
to dine at Longbourn in a few days time.
something of his concern
at having been prevented by business.
anything less than two courses could be good enough for a man
or satisfy the appetite and pride of one who had ten thousand a year.
Bingley had received his sanction to be happy,
his eyes likewise turned towards Mr. Darcy, with an expression of half-laughing alarm.
if left wholly to himself, Jane's happiness, and his own, would be speedily secured.
how little such a situation would give pleasure to either, or make either appear to advantage.
tell him that his kindness was neither unknown nor unfelt by the whole of the family.
the evening would afford some opportunity of bringing them together;
the whole of the visit would not pass away without enabling them to enter into something more of conversation than the mere ceremonious salutation attending his entrance.
he looked as if he would have answered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table,
to be soon joined by him,
their carriage was unluckily ordered before any of the others,
no opportunity of detaining them.