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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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their sudden return home, which, as their own carriage had not fetched them, she should have known nothing about, if she had not happened to see Mr. Jones's shop-boy in the street, who had told her that
Mr. Denny had brought him from London,
he was to have a lieutenant's commission in the ——shire.
She had been watching him the last hour,
as he walked up and down the street,
to make her husband call on Mr. Wickham, and give him an invitation also, if the family from Longbourn would come in the evening.
they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.
Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.
with the design of cheering and heartening them up
her husband would have quite walking enough by the time he reached home,
her husband feels a good deal on his poor sister's account; but, however, Louisa is a great favourite with both.
she looked quite as she should do.
on having preserved her gown from injury.
Thorpe;
how time had slipped away since they were last together, how little they had thought of meeting in Bath, and what a pleasure it was to see an old friend,
the prettiest girl in Bath.”
guess the price and weigh the merits of a new muff and tippet.
she would move a little to accommodate Mrs. Hughes and Miss Tilney with seats, as they had agreed to join their party.
she was vastly pleased at your all going.”
he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning,
nothing of any of them.
her great good luck.
the necessity of its concealment,
she could have known his intention,
she could have seen him before he went, as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother, and her kind compliments to all the Skinners.
very pretty kind of young people;
To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.
She begged him to think again on the subject.
How could he answer it to himself to rob his child, and his only child too, of so large a sum? And what possible claim could the Miss Dashwoods, who were related to him only by half blood, which she considered as no relationship at all, have on his generosity to so large an amount.
It was very well known that no affection was ever supposed to exist between the children of any man by different marriages;
why was he to ruin himself, and their
poor little Harry,
by giving away fall his money to his half sisters?
who wondered at his being so shy before company, as he could make noise enough at home.
hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex,
Colonel Brandon was very much in love with Marianne Dashwood.
She rather suspected it to be so, on the very first evening of their being together, from his listening so attentively while she sang to them;
It must be so. She was perfectly convinced of it.
It would be an excellent match, for HE was rich, and SHE was handsome.
Marianne's preserver,
Marianne wore his picture round her neck;
Elinor's particular favourite,
what could be the reason of it;
Barton cottage was taken:
it would not do her any harm.
if there was any news in the paper.
if she had not been to Allenham;
she did not care how cross he was to her, as they must live together.
HE was in love with your sister too.
not to care about their being so fashionable; because they were all cousins and must put up with one another.

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