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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"I am very glad you were well enough, and I hope you had a pleasant party."
"I have not the smallest objection on that account,"
I should never think of standing on such ceremony with people I know so well as Mrs and the Miss Musgroves."
"Very true."
"But that was only the effect of the suddenness of your alarm -- of the shock. You will not be hysterical again. I dare say we shall have nothing to distress us. I perfectly understand Mr Robinson's directions, and have no fears; and indeed, Mary, I cannot wonder at your husband. Nursing does not belong to a man; it is not his province. A sick child is always the mother's property: her own feelings generally make it so."
"But, could you be comfortable yourself, to be spending the whole evening away from the poor boy?"
"Well, if you do not think it too late to give notice for yourself, suppose you were to go, as well as your husband. Leave little Charles to my care. Mr and Mrs Musgrove cannot think it wrong while I remain with him."
"It is over! it is over!"
"The worst is over!"
"Altered beyond his knowledge."
"They are up stairs with my sister: they will be down in a few moments, I dare say,"
"How do you do? Will you not sit down? The others will be here presently."
"Walter,"
"get down this moment. You are extremely troublesome. I am very angry with you."
"Is not this one of the ways to Winthrop?"
"And yet,"
"he has not, perhaps, a more sorrowing heart than I have. I cannot believe his prospects so blighted for ever. He is younger than I am; younger in feeling, if not in fact; younger as a man. He will rally again, and be happy with another."
"These would have been all my friends,"
"No,"
"that I can easily believe to be impossible; but in time, perhaps -- we know what time does in every case of affliction, and you must remember, Captain Harville, that your friend may yet be called a young mourner -- only last summer, I understand."
"And not known to him, perhaps, so soon."
"Go to him, go to him,"
"for heaven's sake go to him. I can support her myself. Leave me, and go to him. Rub her hands, rub her temples; here are salts; take them, take them."
A surgeon!"
"Captain Benwick, would not it be better for Captain Benwick? He knows where a surgeon is to be found."
"Had not she better be carried to the inn? Yes, I am sure: carry her gently to the inn."
"It was what she had been thinking of, and wishing to be allowed to do. A bed on the floor in Louisa's room would be sufficient for her, if Mrs Harville would but think so."
"I must call on Mrs Croft; I really must call upon her soon. Anne, have you courage to go with me, and pay a visit in that house? It will be some trial to us both."
"I think you are very likely to suffer the most of the two; your feelings are less reconciled to the change than mine. By remaining in the neighbourhood, I am become inured to it."
"Another time, Sir, I thank you, not now."
"I must see Captain Benwick before I decide,"
"Any acquaintance of Anne's will always be welcome to me,"
"Well, as your joint acquaintance, then, I shall be very happy to see Captain Benwick."
"There we differ, Mary,"
"I think Lady Russell would like him. I think she would be so much pleased with his mind, that she would very soon see no deficiency in his manner."
"Upon my word,"
"I should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself. I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly opposite notions. I wish he may be induced to call here. And when he does, Mary, you may depend upon hearing my opinion; but I am determined not to judge him beforehand."
"He is a man,"
"whom I have no wish to see. His declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong impression in his disfavour with me."
"I hope I shall remember, in future,"
"not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."
"a man whom she had no wish to see."
"Oh! when shall I leave you again?"
"Oh! no, that must have been quite accidental. In general she has been in very good health and very good looks since Michaelmas."
"That must not be any reason, indeed. I assure you I feel it none. She is nothing to me, compared with you;"
"No, nothing."
"No, nothing at all."
"Elizabeth."
"Elizabeth! very well; time will explain."
"Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady Dalrymple had taken a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be living in style. She had been at Bath the year before, and Lady Russell had heard her spoken of as a charming woman. It was very desirable that the connexion should be renewed, if it could be done, without any compromise of propriety on the side of the Elliots."

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