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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“Nay, do not distress me. I believe I have said too much. Let us drop the subject.”
“For heaven’s sake! Let us move away from this end of the room. Do you know, there are two odious young men who have been staring at me this half hour. They really put me quite out of countenance. Let us go and look at the arrivals. They will hardly follow us there.”
“They are not coming this way, are they? I hope they are not so impertinent as to follow us. Pray let me know if they are coming. I am determined I will not look up.”
she need not be longer uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room.
“And which way are they gone?”
“One was a very good-looking young man.”
“They went towards the church-yard.”
“Well, I am amazingly glad I have got rid of them! And now, what say you to going to Edgar’s Buildings with me, and looking at my new hat?
You said
“Only,”
“perhaps we may overtake the two young men.”
“Oh! Never mind that. If we make haste, we shall pass by them presently, and I am dying to show you my hat.”
“But if we only wait a few minutes, there will be no danger of our seeing them at all.”
“I shall not pay them any such compliment, I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
“Oh, these odious gigs!”
“How I detest them.”
“Delightful! Mr. Morland and my brother!”
“Good heaven! 'Tis James!”
“I do not know the distance.”
“He does look very hot, to be sure.”
“I am sure I cannot guess at all.”
“And I am sure,”
“I know so little of such things that I cannot judge whether it was cheap or dear.”
“That was very good-natured of you,”
“Yes, very; I have hardly ever an opportunity of being in one; but I am particularly fond of it.”
“Thank you,”
“Thank you; but will not your horse want rest?”
“Shall you indeed!”
“That will be forty miles a day.”
“How delightful that will be!”
“My dearest Catherine, I quite envy you; but I am afraid, brother, you will not have room for a third.”
“Have you ever read Udolpho, Mr. Thorpe?”
“I think you must like Udolpho, if you were to read it; it is so very interesting.”
“Udolpho was written by Mrs. Radcliffe,”
“I suppose you mean Camilla?”
“I have never read it.”
“I like him very much; he seems very agreeable.”
“Very, very much indeed: Isabella particularly.”
“Indeed I am,”
“I love her exceedingly, and am delighted to find that you like her too. You hardly mentioned anything of her when you wrote to me after your visit there.”
“Yes, very much indeed, I fancy;
Mr. Allen thinks her
“Yes, very kind; I never was so happy before; and now you are come it will be more delightful than ever; how good it is of you to come so far on purpose to see me.”
“I assure you,”
“I would not stand up without your dear sister for all the world; for if I did we should certainly be separated the whole evening.”
“My dear creature, I am afraid I must leave you, your brother is so amazingly impatient to begin; I know you will not mind my going away, and I dare say John will be back in a moment, and then you may easily find me out.”
“Good-bye, my dear love,”
“I am very happy to see you again, sir, indeed; I was afraid you had left Bath.”
“Well, sir, and I dare say you are not sorry to be back again, for it is just the place for young people — and indeed for everybody else too. I tell Mr. Allen, when he talks of being sick of it, that I am sure he should not complain, for it is so very agreeable a place, that it is much better to be here than at home at this dull time of year. I tell him he is quite in luck to be sent here for his health.”
“Thank you, sir. I have no doubt that he will. A neighbour of ours, Dr. Skinner, was here for his health last winter, and came away quite stout.”

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