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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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her to look up and smile;
"You ought to know your friend best,"
"but I should say she was a good-tempered, soft-hearted girl, not likely to be very, very determined against any young man who told her he loved her."
"Do you dare say this?"
"Do you dare to suppose me so great a blockhead, as not to know what a man is talking of?—What do you deserve?"
"I am quite sure,"
"that
he told me
and that there was no obscurity, nothing doubtful, in the words he used; and I think I can give you a proof that it must be so.
He asked my opinion as to
I assured him that I could not.
he said,
"You are materially changed since we talked on this subject before."
"And I am changed also; for I am now very willing to grant you all Harriet's good qualities. I have taken some pains for your sake, and for Robert Martin's sake, (whom I have always had reason to believe as much in love with her as ever,) to get acquainted with her. I have often talked to her a good deal. You must have seen that I did. Sometimes, indeed, I have thought you were half suspecting me of pleading poor Martin's cause, which was never the case; but, from all my observations, I am convinced of her being an artless, amiable girl, with very good notions, very seriously good principles, and placing her happiness in the affections and utility of domestic life.—Much of this, I have no doubt, she may thank you for."