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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"I confess that I do think there is a disparity, too great a disparity, and in a point no less essential than mind. I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is something more. He is a clever man, a reading man; and I confess, that I do consider his attaching himself to her with some surprise. Had it been the effect of gratitude, had he learnt to love her, because he believed her to be preferring him, it would have been another thing. But I have no reason to suppose it so. It seems, on the contrary, to have been a perfectly spontaneous, untaught feeling on his side, and this surprises me. A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was indeed attachment. A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not."
"You were a good while at Lyme, I think?"
"About a fortnight. I could not leave it till Louisa's doing well was quite ascertained. I had been too deeply concerned in the mischief to be soon at peace. It had been my doing, solely mine. She would not have been obstinate if I had not been weak. The country round Lyme is very fine. I walked and rode a great deal; and the more I saw, the more I found to admire."
"I should very much like to see Lyme again,"
"Indeed! I should not have supposed that you could have found anything in Lyme to inspire such a feeling. The horror and distress you were involved in, the stretch of mind, the wear of spirits! I should have thought your last impressions of Lyme must have been strong disgust."
"The last hours were certainly very painful,"
"but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering, which was by no means the case at Lyme. We were only in anxiety and distress during the last two hours, and previously there had been a great deal of enjoyment. So much novelty and beauty! I have travelled so little, that every fresh place would be interesting to me; but there is real beauty at Lyme; and in short"
"altogether my impressions of the place are very agreeable."
"they should meet again. He would look for her, he would find her out before the evening were over, and at present, perhaps, it was as well to be asunder. She was in need of a little interval for recollection."
His opinion of Louisa Musgrove's inferiority, an opinion which he had seemed solicitous to give, his wonder at Captain Benwick, his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance,
all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by friendship and regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past.
He must love her.
"This,"
"is nearly the sense, or rather the meaning of the words, for certainly the sense of an Italian love-song must not be talked of, but it is as nearly the meaning as I can give; for I do not pretend to understand the language. I am a very poor Italian scholar."
"I will not oppose such kind politeness; but I should be sorry to be examined by a real proficient."
"For shame! for shame! this is too much flattery. I forget what we are to have next," turning to the bill.
"Indeed! How so? You can have been acquainted with it only since I came to Bath, excepting as you might hear me previously spoken of in my own family."
He might have been in Mr Elliot's company,
He could not have come nearer to her if he would; she was so surrounded and shut in: but she would rather have caught his eye.
she had seen him.
She could not quit that room in peace without seeing Captain Wentworth once more, without the interchange of one friendly look.
Miss Larolles,
Why was it?
Could there have been any unpleasant glances?
owned himself disappointed, had expected singing;
must confess that he should not be sorry when it was over.
"He must wish her good night; he was going; he should get home as fast as he could."
"Is not this song worth staying for?"
"No!"
"there is nothing worth my staying for;"
Jealousy of Mr Elliot!
Captain Wentworth jealous of her affection! Could she have believed it a week ago; three hours ago!
How was such jealousy to be quieted? How was the truth to reach him? How, in all the peculiar disadvantages of their respective situations, would he ever learn of her real sentiments?
Their evil was incalculable.
of the right which he seemed to have to interest her, by everything in situation, by his own sentiments, by his early prepossession. It was altogether very extraordinary; flattering, but painful. There was much to regret.
be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their union,
could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.
"Yes; I did not see them myself, but I heard Mr Elliot say they were in the room."
"I do not know. I do not think they were."
"No, that was what I dreaded. It would have been very unpleasant to me in every respect. But happily Lady Dalrymple always chooses to be farther off; and we were exceedingly well placed, that is, for hearing; I must not say for seeing, because I appear to have seen very little."
"But I ought to have looked about me more,"
there had in fact been no want of looking about,
the object only had been deficient.
"Do you see that in my eye?"
how any report of Captain Wentworth could have reached her.
"Mr Elliot!"
"Are you acquainted with Mr Elliot?"
"I was not at all aware of this. You never mentioned it before. Had I known it, I would have had the pleasure of talking to him about you."
"I should be extremely happy; I hope you cannot doubt my willingness to be of even the slightest use to you,"
"but I suspect that you are considering me as having a higher claim on Mr Elliot, a greater right to influence him, than is really the case. I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion. You must consider me only as Mr Elliot's relation. If in that light there is anything which you suppose his cousin might fairly ask of him, I beg you would not hesitate to employ me."