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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"My dear Miss Fairfax, young ladies are very sure to be cared for.—I hope your good grand-mama and aunt are well. They are some of my very old friends. I wish my health allowed me to be a better neighbour. You do us a great deal of honour to-day, I am sure. My daughter and I are both highly sensible of your goodness, and have the greatest satisfaction in seeing you at Hartfield."
he had done his duty, and made every fair lady welcome and easy.
"Isabella and Emma both write beautifully,"
"and always did. And so does poor Mrs. Weston"—
to be allowed to hand her into the dining-parlour,
their promising never to go beyond the shrubbery again.
they were all very indifferent—
"poor little boys,"
"Some very fine morning, he, and Emma, and Harriet, could go very well; and he could sit still with Mrs. Weston, while the dear girls walked about the gardens. He did not suppose they could be damp now, in the middle of the day. He should like to see the old house again exceedingly, and should be very happy to meet Mr. and Mrs. Elton, and any other of his neighbours.—He could not see any objection at all to his, and Emma's, and Harriet's going there some very fine morning. He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite them —very kind and sensible —much cleverer than dining out.—He was not fond of dining out."
Mrs. Weston had been shewing them all to him, and now he would shew them all to Emma;—
"I am afraid Jane is not very well,"
"but I do not know; they tell me she is well. I dare say my daughter will be here presently, Miss Woodhouse. I hope you find a chair. I wish Hetty had not gone. I am very little able —Have you a chair, ma'am? Do you sit where you like? I am sure she will be here presently."
"Well, my dear, and did you get there safely?—And how did you find my worthy old friend and her daughter?—I dare say they must have been very much obliged to you for coming. Dear Emma has been to call on Mrs. and Miss Bates, Mr. Knightley, as I told you before. She is always so attentive to them!"
"I am very glad, indeed, my dear, to hear she is to be so comfortably settled. Mrs. Elton is very good-natured and agreeable, and I dare say her acquaintance are just what they ought to be. I hope it is a dry situation, and that her health will be taken good care of. It ought to be a first object, as I am sure poor Miss Taylor's always was with me. You know, my dear, she is going to be to this new lady what Miss Taylor was to us. And I hope she will be better off in one respect, and not be induced to go away after it has been her home so long."
might not have taken cold from his ride.—
James's being gone out to put the horses to, preparatory to their now daily drive to Randalls;
the comfortable persuasion of his being obliged to go to Randalls every day, or poor Mrs. Weston would be disappointed.
commended her very much for thinking of sending for Perry, and only
she had not done it.
"She should always send for Perry, if the child appeared in the slightest degree disordered, were it only for a moment. She could not be too soon alarmed, nor send for Perry too often. It was a pity, perhaps, that he had not come last night; for, though the child seemed well now, very well considering, it would probably have been better if Perry had seen it."
While either of them protected him and his, Hartfield was safe.—
very desirous that her son should marry,
of all the young ladies she had ever seen, Miss Bertram seemed, by her amiable qualities and accomplishments, the best adapted to make him happy.
a matter not to be talked of at present.
Mrs. Rushworth proposed that
the chaise should be taken also;
Her next proposition, of
shewing the house to such of them as had not been there before,
regretted that his part was not more considerable,
Mrs. Rushworth was quite ready to retire, and make way for the fortunate young woman whom her dear son had selected;