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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"Elizabeth."
"My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
"Yes,"
"we shall, indeed, be known to be related to them!"
"I certainly do think there has been by far too much trouble taken to procure the acquaintance. I suppose"
"I have more pride than any of you; but I confess it does vex me, that we should be so solicitous to have the relationship acknowledged, which we may be very sure is a matter of perfect indifference to them."
"Well,"
"I certainly am proud, too proud to enjoy a welcome which depends so entirely upon place."
"I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieties of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are well read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes."
"She was engaged to spend the evening with an old schoolfellow."
"No, sir, she is not one-and-thirty; but I do not think I can put off my engagement, because it is the only evening for some time which will at once suit her and myself. She goes into the warm bath to-morrow, and for the rest of the week, you know, we are engaged."
"She sees nothing to blame in it,"
"on the contrary, she approves it, and has generally taken me when I have called on Mrs Smith.
"Mr Elliot is an exceedingly agreeable man, and in many respects I think highly of him,"
"but we should not suit."
"A letter from Uppercross Cottage, Sir."
"They come on the Admiral's account. He is thought to be gouty."
"I do not know; but I can hardly suppose that, at Admiral Croft's time of life, and in his profession, he should not have many acquaintance in such a place as this."
"None, I thank you, unless you will give me the pleasure of your company the little way our road lies together. I am going home."
"Did you say that you had something to tell me, sir?"
"Louisa."
"A little. I am a little acquainted with Captain Benwick."
"I thought Captain Benwick a very pleasing young man,"
"and I understand that he bears an excellent character."
"Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of spirit from Captain Benwick's manners. I thought them particularly pleasing, and I will answer for it, they would generally please."
"I was not entering into any comparison of the two friends,"
"I hope, Admiral, I hope there is nothing in the style of Captain Wentworth's letter to make you and Mrs Croft particularly uneasy. It did seem, last autumn, as if there were an attachment between him and Louisa Musgrove; but I hope it may be understood to have worn out on each side equally, and without violence. I hope his letter does not breathe the spirit of an ill-used man."
"Certainly. But what I mean is, that I hope there is nothing in Captain Wentworth's manner of writing to make you suppose he thinks himself ill-used by his friend, which might appear, you know, without its being absolutely said. I should be very sorry that such a friendship as has subsisted between him and Captain Benwick should be destroyed, or even wounded, by a circumstance of this sort."
"I am much obliged to you,"
"but I am not going with them. The carriage would not accommodate so many. I walk: I prefer walking."
"Oh! very little, Nothing that I regard."
"I am only waiting for Mr Elliot. He will be here in a moment, I am sure."
"Good morning to you!"
"Now, how would she speak of him?"
"Certainly I could have none. But it appears -- I should hope it would be a very happy match. There are on both sides good principles and good temper."
"You were a good while at Lyme, I think?"
"I should very much like to see Lyme again,"
"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."
"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."
"Is not this song worth staying for?"
"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."