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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“And then,”
“if that very improbable event should ever take place, I shall merely be able to tell what Bingley may tell in a much more agreeable manner himself. The liberty of communication cannot be mine till it has lost all its value!”
Jane was not happy.
a very tender affection for Bingley.
the justice of Mr. Darcy's objections; and never had she before been so much disposed to pardon his interference in the views of his friend.
as the death warrant of all possibility of common sense for the latter;
detestable as such a step must make her were it known,
secretly advising her father not to let her go.
all the improprieties of Lydia's general behaviour, the little advantage she could derive from the friendship of such a woman as Mrs. Forster, and the probability of her being yet more imprudent with such a companion at Brighton, where the temptations must be greater than at home.
a visit to Brighton comprised every possibility of earthly happiness.
the streets of that gay bathing-place covered with officers.
herself the object of attention, to tens and to scores of them at present unknown.
all the glories of the camp — its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowded with the young and the gay, and dazzling with scarlet; and, to complete the view,
herself seated beneath a tent, tenderly flirting with at least six officers at once.
in the very gentleness which had first delighted her, an affectation and a sameness to disgust and weary.
the reproof contained in his believing, that however long, and for whatever cause, his attentions had been withdrawn, her vanity would be gratified, and her preference secured at any time by their renewal.
Colonel Fitzwilliam's and Mr. Darcy's having both spent three weeks at Rosings,
if he was acquainted with the former.
he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances,
the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage,
the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going off to the camp;
by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
there might have been time enough.
she had no business at Pemberley,
She must own that she was tired of seeing great houses; after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains.
The possibility of meeting Mr. Darcy, while viewing the place,
It would be dreadful!
it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk.
it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries as to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
whether Pemberley were not a very fine place? what was the name of its proprietor? and,
whether the family were down for the summer?
she had not really any dislike to the scheme.
a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
lest the chambermaid had been mistaken.
her being where she was.
a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil,
it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
whether her master was really absent,
their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
for Mr. Wickham's being among them.
This was praise, of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her ideas.
That he was not a good-tempered man
with such a smile over the face as she remembered to have sometimes seen when he looked at her.
The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master,
how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! — how much of pleasure or pain was it in his power to bestow! — how much of good or evil must be done by him!
Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character,