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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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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, —