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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“Yes, she did.”
“That
and
she was afraid
At such a distance as that, you know, things are strangely misrepresented.”
“Perhaps preparing for his marriage with Miss de Bourgh,”
“It must be something particular, to take him there at this time of year.”
“Yes; he introduced us to his sister.”
“Very much.”
“I dare say she will; she has got over the most trying age.”
“I do not recollect that we did.”
“How should you have liked making sermons?”
“I have heard
from authority, which I thought as good,
that
“I did hear,
too,
that
that
and
that
“Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know. Do not let us quarrel about the past. In future, I hope we shall be always of one mind.”
she had said enough to keep him quiet.
“Oh, lord! I don't know. Not these two or three years, perhaps.”
“As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.”
“This is the consequence, you see, Madam, of marrying a daughter,”
“It must make you better satisfied that your other four are single.”
capable of coming there with no other view than what was acknowledged;
the greater probability of his coming there with his friend's permission, or being bold enough to come without it.
“Yet it is hard,”
“that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself.”
In spite of what her sister declared, and really believed to be her feelings in the expectation of his arrival,
her spirits were affected by it.
They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them.
“I begin to be sorry that he comes at all,”
“It would be nothing; I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of. My mother means well; but she does not know, no one can know, how much I suffer from what she says. Happy shall I be, when his stay at Netherfield is over!”
“I wish I could say anything to comfort you,”
“but it is wholly out of my power. You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much.”
“There is a gentleman with him, mamma,”
“who can it be?”
“La!”
“it looks just like that man that used to be with him before. Mr. what's-his-name. That tall, proud man .”
the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.
To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own more extensive information, he was the person to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just as what Jane felt for Bingley.
at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again,
his affection and wishes must still be unshaken. But she would not be secure.
“Let me first see how he behaves,”
“it will then be early enough for expectation.”
more as he had been used to look in Hertfordshire, than as she had seen him at Pemberley. But, perhaps he could not in her mother's presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt.
It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture.

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