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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“and how pleasant it would be if we had any acquaintance here.”
“I think, madam, I cannot be mistaken; it is a long time since I had the pleasure of seeing you, but is not your name Allen?”
“Here come my dear girls,”
“My dear Mrs. Allen, I long to introduce them; they will be so delighted to see you: the tallest is Isabella, my eldest; is not she a fine young woman? The others are very much admired too, but I believe Isabella is the handsomest.”
“The very picture of him indeed!”
“I wish we had some acquaintance in Bath!”
“How glad I am we have met with Mrs. Thorpe!”
“I beg your pardon, Miss Morland,”
“for this liberty — but I cannot anyhow get to Miss Thorpe, and
Mrs. Thorpe said
“Well, my dear,”
“I hope you have had an agreeable partner.”
“I am glad of it. John has charming spirits, has not he?”
“Did you meet Mr. Tilney, my dear?”
“He was with us just now, and
said
so I thought perhaps he would ask you, if he met with you.”
“Ah! He has got a partner; I wish he had asked you,”
“he is a very agreeable young man.”
“Indeed he is, Mrs. Allen,”
“I must say it, though I am his mother, that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world.”
“I dare say she thought I was speaking of her son.”
“Do just as you please, my dear,”
“Well, my dear, here you are,”
“and I hope you have had a pleasant airing?”
“So
Mrs. Thorpe said;
“Yes, I went to the pump-room as soon as you were gone, and there I met her, and we had a great deal of talk together.
She says
“Yes; we agreed to take a turn in the Crescent, and there we met Mrs. Hughes, and Mr. and Miss Tilney walking with her.”
“Yes, we walked along the Crescent together for half an hour. They seem very agreeable people. Miss Tilney was in a very pretty spotted muslin, and I fancy, by what I can learn, that she always dresses very handsomely. Mrs. Hughes talked to me a great deal about the family.”
“Oh! A vast deal indeed; she hardly talked of anything else.”
“Yes, she did; but I cannot recollect now. But they are very good kind of people, and very rich.
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.”
“Yes, I fancy they are, but I am not quite certain. Upon recollection, however, I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes, I am sure Mrs. Tilney is dead, because
Mrs. Hughes told me
there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.”
“I cannot be quite positive about that, my dear; I have some idea he is; but, however,
he is a very fine young man,
Mrs. Hughes says,
and likely to do very well.”
she was ready to go.
“She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out.”
“I thought how it would be,”
“Perhaps it may, but then, my dear, it will be so dirty.”
“No,”
“I know you never mind dirt.”
“So it does indeed. If it keeps raining, the streets will be very wet.”
“They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”
“Anybody would have thought so indeed. There will be very few people in the pump-room, if it rains all the morning. I hope Mr. Allen will put on his greatcoat when he goes, but I dare say he will not, for he had rather do anything in the world than walk out in a greatcoat; I wonder he should dislike it, it must be so comfortable.”

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