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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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they are always tempting her to take a walk with them."
help nurse dear Miss Louisa.
"She was very much honoured, and should be happy in their acquaintance."
She was a widow and poor. Her husband had been extravagant; and at his death, about two years before, had left his affairs dreadfully involved. She had had difficulties of every sort to contend with, and in addition to these distresses had been afflicted with a severe rheumatic fever, which, finally settling in her legs, had made her for the present a cripple. She had come to Bath on that account, and was now in lodgings near the hot baths, living in a very humble way, unable even to afford herself the comfort of a servant, and of course almost excluded from society.
the satisfaction which a visit from Miss Elliot would give Mrs Smith,
to convey anything to you;
"A very fine young man indeed!"
"More air than one often sees in Bath. Irish, I dare say."
'somewhere down in the west,'
it is to be put into the marriage articles when you and Mr Elliot marry, that your father is not to marry Mrs Clay.