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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“If you will only tell me what sort of girl Miss King is, I shall know what to think.”
“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather's death made her mistress of this fortune.”
“But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event.”
“Her not objecting does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself — sense or feeling.”
“No, Lizzy, that is what I do not choose. I should be sorry, you know, to think ill of a young man who has lived so long in Derbyshire.”
“Take care, Lizzy; that speech savours strongly of disappointment.”
“We have not quite determined how far it shall carry us,”
“but, perhaps, to the Lakes.”
“Lady Catherine is a very respectable, sensible woman indeed,”
“and a most attentive neighbour.”
letting them know that the whole party was asked to dine at Rosings the next day.
what an honour they might expect,
“What can be the meaning of this ?”
“My dear, Eliza, he must be in love with you, or he would never have called on us in this familiar way.”
He certainly looked at her friend a great deal, but the expression of that look was disputable. It was an earnest, stedfast gaze,
whether there were much admiration in it, and sometimes it seemed nothing but absence of mind.
it admitted not of a doubt,
all her friend's dislike would vanish, if she could suppose him to be in her power.
He was beyond comparison the most pleasant man; he certainly admired her, and his situation in life was most eligible; but, to counterbalance these advantages, Mr. Darcy had considerable patronage in the church, and his cousin could have none at all.
the two gentlemen from Rosings had each called during her absence; Mr. Darcy, only for a few minutes, to take leave — but that Colonel Fitzwilliam had been sitting with them at least an hour, hoping for her return, and almost resolving to walk after her till she could be found.
Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire. In that county there was enough to be seen to occupy the chief of their three weeks;
Pemberley was situated. It was not in their direct road, nor more than a mile or two out of it.
to see the place again.
“My love, should not you like to see a place of which you have heard so much?”
“a place, too, with which so many of your acquaintances are connected. Wickham passed all his youth there, you know.”
“If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,”
“I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.”
“But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.”
how she liked it.
“He is now gone into the army,”
“but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”
“And that,”
“is my master — and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the other — about eight years ago.”
“I have heard much of your master's fine person,”
“it is a handsome face. But, Lizzy, you can tell us whether it is like or not.”
“Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?”
“And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma'am?”
“I am sure I know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you will see a finer, larger picture of him than this. This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then. He was very fond of them.”
“Oh! yes — the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so accomplished! — She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her — a present from my master; she comes here to-morrow with him.”
“Not so much as I could wish, sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
“Yes, sir; but I do not know when that will be. I do not know who is good enough for him.”
“I say no more than the truth, and everybody will say that knows him,”
“I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
“Yes, sir, I know I am. If I were to go through the world, I could not meet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world.”
“His father was an excellent man,”
"Yes, ma'am, that he was indeed; and his son will be just like him — just as affable to the poor.”
“He is the best landlord, and the best master,”
“that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
“This fine account of him,”
is not quite consistent with his behaviour to our poor friend.”