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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
there was a solicitude, an interest
must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard;
whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.
he must be often forgotten.
the mere stateliness of money or rank
she could witness without trepidation.
Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
had not been the case.
the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
Charlotte should not prefer the dining-parlour for common use; it was a better sized room, and had a more pleasant aspect;
her friend had an excellent reason for what she did, for Mr. Collins would undoubtedly have been much less in his own apartment, had they sat in one equally lively;
there might be other family livings to be disposed of,
though this great lady was not in the commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.
though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently destined by Lady Catherine,
to inquire
after the health of her family.
he looked a little confused
he had never been so fortunate as to meet Miss Bennet.
having promised to play to him;
he might have been just as likely to marry her, had she been his relation.
for his intrusion
he had understood all the ladies were to be within.
he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield,
there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners,
he might have the best informed mind.
all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought,
it was a favourite haunt of hers.
How it could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third.
It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
he was asking some odd unconnected questions — about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins's happiness;
of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying there too.
His words seemed to imply it. Could he have Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts?
if he meant anything, he must mean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter.
To interrupt a silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed,
why she supposed Miss Darcy likely to give them any uneasiness,
she had somehow or other got pretty near the truth.
so just a picture of Mr. Darcy,
It was not to be supposed that any other people could be meant than those with whom she was connected. There could not exist in the world two men over whom Mr. Darcy could have such boundless influence.
That he had been concerned in the measures taken to separate Mr. Bingley and Jane
the principal design and arrangement of them.
If his own vanity, however, did not mislead him, he was the cause, his pride and caprice were the cause, of all that Jane had suffered, and still continued to suffer. He had ruined for a while every hope of happiness for the most affectionate, generous heart in the world; and no one could say how lasting an evil he might have inflicted.
were Colonel Fitzwilliam's words; and those strong objections probably were, her having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in business in London.
any objections there had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride,
would receive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense;
he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retaining Mr. Bingley for his sister.