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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of everybody else;
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.
the Crofts are going to Bath almost immediately; they think the Admiral gouty.
on the strength of his present income, with almost a certainty of something more permanent long before the term in question, the two families had consented to the young people's wishes,