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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"You mean,"
"Mr. Willoughby's marriage with Miss Grey. Yes, we DO know it all. This seems to have been a day of general elucidation, for this very morning first unfolded it to us. Mr. Willoughby is unfathomable! Where did you hear it?"
"It is. But have you likewise heard that Miss Grey has fifty thousand pounds? In that, if in any thing, we may find an explanation."
"Her sufferings have been very severe. I have only to hope that they may be proportionately short. It has been, it is a most cruel affliction. Till yesterday, I believe, she never doubted his regard; and even now, perhaps — but I am almost convinced that he never was really attached to her. He has been very deceitful! and, in some points, there seems a hardness of heart about him."
"You know her disposition, and may believe how eagerly she would still justify him if she could."
"No, no, no, it cannot be,"
"she cannot feel. Her kindness is not sympathy; her good-nature is not tenderness. All that she wants is gossip, and she only likes me now because I supply it."
"Who can this be?"
"So early too! I thought we HAD been safe."
"It is Colonel Brandon!"
"We are never safe from HIM."
"He will not come in, as Mrs. Jennings is from home."
"I will not trust to THAT,"
"A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
"I understand you,"
"You have something to tell me of Mr. Willoughby, that will open his character farther. Your telling it will be the greatest act of friendship that can be shewn Marianne. MY gratitude will be insured immediately by any information tending to that end, and HERS must be gained by it in time. Pray, pray let me hear it."
"Indeed,"
"I have NOT forgotten it."
"Good heavens!"
"could it be — could Willoughby!" —
"This is beyond every thing!"
"I have been more pained,"
"by her endeavors to acquit him than by all the rest; for it irritates her mind more than the most perfect conviction of his unworthiness can do. Now, though at first she will suffer much, I am sure she will soon become easier. Have you,"
"ever seen Mr. Willoughby since you left him at Barton?"
"What? have you met him to — "
"Is she still in town?"
though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
he was married.
"No, I do not think we shall."
"You are very good. My sister will be equally sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you; but she has been very much plagued lately with nervous head-aches, which make her unfit for company or conversation."
"Excellent indeed. Their attention to our comfort, their friendliness in every particular, is more than I can express."
"Yes; he has very good property in Dorsetshire."
"Me, brother! what do you mean?"
"I believe about two thousand a year."
"Indeed I believe you,"
"but I am very sure that Colonel Brandon has not the smallest wish of marrying ME."
"Is Mr. Edward Ferrars,"
"going to be married?"
"Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."
"More than you think it really and intrinsically worth."
"Certainly,"
"and assisted by her liberality, I hope you may yet live to be in easy circumstances."
"Where is the green-house to be?"
"Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children."
"And do you not think it more likely that she should leave it to her daughters, than to us?"
"But she raises none in those most concerned. Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far."
"She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks."
Edward who lived with his mother, must be asked as his mother was, to a party given by his sister; and to see him for the first time, after all that passed, in the company of Lucy! —
she hardly knew how she could bear it!
she did pity her —