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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town;
He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.
he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."
he should be easy.
that was some comfort to him,
but not equal to a picture.
her not finding London agree with her.
Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. He would stand to it, cost him what it might."
he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have.
it seemed to him as if, now he had no fortune, and no nothing at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement, because it must be for her loss, for he had nothing but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had some thoughts, he could get nothing but a curacy, and how was they to live upon that?
if she had the least mind for it, to put an end to the matter directly, and leave him shift for himself.
Edward have got some business at Oxford,
it should never be, he did not regard his mother's anger, while he could have my affections;
perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest.
a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.
not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford —