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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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Colonel Wallis had known Mr Elliot long, had been well acquainted also with his wife, had perfectly understood the whole story. She was certainly not a woman of family, but well educated, accomplished, rich, and excessively in love with his friend. There had been the charm. She had sought him. Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot,
  • Novel: Persuasion
  • Character: Narrator as Sir Walter Elliot and Elizabeth Elliot as Colonel Wallis
  • Link to text in chapter 15
  • Text ID: 01588
her having been a very fine woman.