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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
saw how very desirable it was that he should have some active, respectable young man, as a resident curate,
at the advantage of such resident curate's being married.
the course of events and the new interests of Henrietta's views should have placed her friend at all in favour with any of the Musgrove family;
such another woman were at Uppercross,
she should like to know who he was.
their father and Mr Elliot had not, for many years, been on such terms as to make the power of attempting an introduction at all desirable.
She would not, upon any account, mention her having met with him the second time; luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in their earlier walk, but she would have felt quite ill-used by Anne's having actually run against him in the passage, and received his very polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all;
no, that cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.
Lord Byron's "dark blue seas"
the jar too great;
most willing, ready, happy to remain.
it would be much better for him to take a chaise from the inn, and leave Mr Musgrove's carriage and horses to be sent home the next morning early, when there would be the farther advantage of sending an account of Louisa's night.
it might, perhaps, be the occasion of continuing their acquaintance
she was valued only as she could be useful to Louisa.
he would not long be so unjust as to suppose she would shrink unnecessarily from the office of a friend.
whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits.
it could scarcely escape him to feel that a persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
She did:
his intention of returning in the same carriage to Lyme;
A few days had made a change indeed!
If Louisa recovered, it would all be well again. More than former happiness would be restored. There could not be a doubt,
there was none, of what would follow her recovery. A few months hence, and the room now so deserted, occupied but by her silent, pensive self, might be filled again with all that was happy and gay, all that was glowing and bright in prosperous love, all that was most unlike Anne Elliot!
Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear.
connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and
that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.
would have been ashamed to have it known how much more she was thinking of Lyme and Louisa Musgrove, and all her acquaintance there; how much more interesting to her was the home and the friendship of the Harvilles and Captain Benwick, than her own father's house in Camden Place, or her own sister's intimacy with Mrs Clay.
so very fortunate in his tenants, felt the parish to be so sure of a good example, and the poor of the best attention and relief,
they were gone who deserved not to stay, and that Kellynch Hall had passed into better hands than its owners'.
He had enquired after her,
particularly;
his hope of Miss Elliot's not being the worse for her exertions,
great.
This was handsome,
Everything was safe enough,
Charles and Mary had remained at Lyme much longer after Mr and Mrs Musgrove's going than
they could have been at all wanted,
was so extremely fearful of any ill consequence to her from an interview,
plan of going away for a week or ten days, till her head was stronger.
going down to Plymouth for a week, and wanted to persuade Captain Benwick to go with him;
she might see him or hear of him.
Uppercross was already quite alive again. Though neither Henrietta, nor Louisa, nor Charles Hayter, nor Captain Wentworth were there, the room presented as strong a contrast as could be wished to the last state she had seen it in.
for who would be glad to see her when she arrived?
Mr Elliot was in Bath. He had called in Camden Place; had called a second time, a third; had been pointedly attentive. If Elizabeth and her father did not deceive themselves, had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.
she would rather see Mr Elliot again than not, which was more than she could say for many other persons in Bath.
she would pretend what was proper on her arrival,
her father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town;
it be a great extenuation.
Allowances, large allowances,
must be made for the ideas of those who spoke. She heard it all under embellishment. All that sounded extravagant or irrational in the progress of the reconciliation might have no origin but in the language of the relators.

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