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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“Come, Darcy,”
“I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing about by yourself in this stupid manner. You had much better dance.”
“I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this it would be insupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.”
“I would not be so fastidious as you are,”
“for a kingdom! Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.”
“You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,”
“Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld! But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty, and I dare say very agreeable. Do let me ask my partner to introduce you.”
“Which do you mean?”
“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your mite with me.”
had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life; everybody had been most kind and attentive to him; there had been no formality, no stiffness; he had soon felt acquainted with all the room; and, as to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful.
had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure.
Miss Bennet
pretty, but she smiled too much.
pretty;
she hardly had a good feature in her face,
her figure
light and pleasing;
her manners were not those of the fashionable world,
“With great energy;— but it is a subject which always makes a lady energetic.”
“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance.”
“You saw me dance at Meryton, I believe, sir.”
“Never, sir.”
“It is a compliment which I never pay to any place if I can avoid it.”
allowed the honour of her hand,
“I should imagine not.”
“Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.”
“Miss Elizabeth Bennet.”
“That is exactly the question which I expected you to ask. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. I knew you would be wishing me joy.”
“Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,”
“but this was all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well when she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”
“Certainly not.”
“It shows an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,”
“Not at all,”
“they were brightened by the exercise.”
“If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside,”
“it would not make them one jot less agreeable.”
“But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world,”
“In nursing your sister I am sure you have pleasure,”
“and I hope it will be soon increased by seeing her quite well.”
to fetch her others — all that his library afforded.
“And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own credit; but I am an idle fellow, and though I have not many, I have more than I ever looked into.”
“It ought to be good,”
“it has been the work of many generations.”
“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”
“I wish it may.”
“With all my heart; I will buy Pemberley itself if Darcy will sell it.”
“Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation.”
“I think she will. She is now about Miss Elizabeth Bennet's height, or rather taller.”
“It is amazing to me,”
“how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.”