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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.
promise to Willoughby was yet unfulfilled, and feared she had that to communicate which might again unsettle the mind of Marianne, and ruin at least for a time this fair prospect of busy tranquillity.
I should give her compliments and Mr. Ferrars's, their best compliments and service, and how sorry they was they had not time to come on and see you, but they was in a great hurry to go forwards, for they was going further down for a little while, but howsever, when they come back, they'd make sure to come and see you."
how she had changed her name since she was in these parts.
"They come straight from town,
Edward would never come near them.
they were probably going down to Mr. Pratt's, near Plymouth.
she was very well;
in spite of herself, she had always admitted a hope, while Edward remained single, that something would occur to prevent his marrying Lucy; that some resolution of his own, some mediation of friends, or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady, would arise to assist the happiness of all. But he was now married;
What had Edward felt on being within four miles from Barton, on seeing her mother's servant, on hearing Lucy's message!
They would soon,
be settled at Delaford.
some one of their connections in London would write to them to announce the event, and give farther particulars, —
They were all thoughtless or indolent.
Now she could hear more;
But — it was NOT Colonel Brandon — neither his air — nor his height.
it must be Edward.
it WAS Edward.
she hoped no coolness, no slight, would appear in their behaviour to him; —
How they could be thrown together, and by what attraction Robert could be drawn on to marry a girl, of whose beauty she had herself heard him speak without any admiration, — a girl too already engaged to his brother, and on whose account that brother had been thrown off by his family —
That Lucy had certainly meant to deceive, to go off with a flourish of malice against him in her message by Thomas,
Robert's offence would serve no other purpose than to enrich Fanny.
too old to be married, —