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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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He found too late, in short, that he had entangled himself; and that precisely as he became fully satisfied of his not caring for Louisa at all, he must regard himself as bound to her, if her sentiments for him were what the Harvilles supposed. It determined him to leave Lyme, and await her complete recovery elsewhere. He would gladly weaken, by any fair means, whatever feelings or speculations concerning him might exist; and he went, therefore, to his brother's, meaning after a while to return to Kellynch, and act as circumstances might require.
He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own pride, and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released from Louisa by the astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her engagement with Benwick.
he had quitted it for a week, on the very morning after his having had the pleasure of seeing her.
he was so tired of lounging about, that he was resolved to go and dance;
they were going as far as Wick Rocks.”
make room for him,
knew nothing about it; but his father, like every military man, had a very large acquaintance.
her having a great deal of natural taste.
foregrounds, distances, and second distances — side-screens and perspectives — lights and shades;
to dance.
His sister,
was uncomfortably circumstanced — she had no female companion — and, in the frequent absence of her father, was sometimes without any companion at all.
her having been undisturbed by the tempest,
for his appearance there,
after what had passed he had little right to expect a welcome at Fullerton,
his impatience to be assured of Miss Morland’s having reached her home in safety, as the cause of his intrusion.
if Mr. and Mrs. Allen were now at Fullerton?
the meaning,
his intention of paying his respects to them,
if she would have the goodness to show him the way.
On his return from Woodston, two days before, he had been met near the abbey by his impatient father, hastily informed in angry terms of
and ordered
No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight.
He had no pleasure at Norland; he detested being in town;
He valued their kindness beyond any thing, and his greatest happiness was in being with them.
he had been staying a fortnight with some friends near Plymouth."
he should be easy.
that was some comfort to him,
but not equal to a picture.
her not finding London agree with her.
Nothing should prevail on him to give up his engagement. He would stand to it, cost him what it might."
he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have.
it seemed to him as if, now he had no fortune, and no nothing at all, it would be quite unkind to keep her on to the engagement, because it must be for her loss, for he had nothing but two thousand pounds, and no hope of any thing else; and if he was to go into orders, as he had some thoughts, he could get nothing but a curacy, and how was they to live upon that?
if she had the least mind for it, to put an end to the matter directly, and leave him shift for himself.
Edward have got some business at Oxford,
it should never be, he did not regard his mother's anger, while he could have my affections;
perhaps, at first accidentally meeting, the vanity of the one had been so worked on by the flattery of the other, as to lead by degrees to all the rest.
a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.
not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford —
all were well in Brunswick Square.
Not think they will do each other any good!
he had been out of doors to examine, and could answer for there not being the smallest difficulty in their getting home, whenever they liked it, either now or an hour hence. He had gone beyond the sweep—some way along the Highbury road —the snow was nowhere above half an inch deep— in many places hardly enough to whiten the ground; a very few flakes were falling at present, but the clouds were parting, and there was every appearance of its being soon over. He had seen the coachmen, and they both agreed with him in there being nothing to apprehend.
it was because she saw in her the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself;
he could listen to her for ever.
Mr. Knightley cannot stop. He is going to Kingston.
if he could do any thing...."
He could not say that he was sorry on his own account;
he was sorry for the disappointment of the others,
Jane Fairfax received attentions from Mrs. Elton which nobody else paid her.
it had been unpardonable rudeness;