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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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trusting their opinion of her — their opinion of everybody — would always coincide,
without a lady: he did not know, whether furniture might not be in danger of suffering as much where there was no lady, as where there were many children. A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world. He had seen Mrs Croft, too; she was at Taunton with the admiral, and had been present almost all the time they were talking the matter over.
"I should be very happy, aunt; but Brighton is almost by Beachey Head; and if I could get so far, I could not expect to be welcome in such a smart place as that— poor scrubby midshipman as I am."
"I begin to think I shall never be a lieutenant, Fanny. Everybody gets made but me."