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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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Lydia's going to Brighton
her husband's never intending to go there himself.
for the felicity of her daughter,
she should not miss the opportunity of enjoying herself as much as possible —
as the only security for her husband's not being killed in a duel.
her daughter would be married was enough.
to all the particulars of calico, muslin, and cambric,
some very plentiful orders,
Had he done his duty in that respect, Lydia need not have been indebted to her uncle for whatever of honour or credit could now be purchased for her.
The satisfaction of prevailing on one of the most worthless young men in Great Britain to be her husband might then have rested in its proper place.
He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present arrangement. He would scarcely be ten pounds a year the loser by the hundred that was to be paid them; for, what with her board and pocket allowance, and the continual presents in money which passed to her through her mother's hands, Lydia's expenses had been very little within that sum.
her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter.
she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion.
besides, it was such a pity that Lydia should be taken from a regiment where she was acquainted with everybody, and had so many favourites.
how absolutely necessary such an attention would be from all the neighbouring gentlemen, on his returning to Netherfield.
though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did.
to be civil to him only as Mr. Bingley's friend,
to dine at Longbourn in a few days time.
anything less than two courses could be good enough for a man
or satisfy the appetite and pride of one who had ten thousand a year.
their carriage was unluckily ordered before any of the others,
no opportunity of detaining them.
she would get him at last;
Two obstacles of the five being thus removed,
Bingley was every thing that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.
unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.
they never sat there after dinner,
to take some refreshment;
why Lady Catherine would not come in again and rest herself.
he was rising every hour in his esteem.
she submitted to the change without much reluctance.
she should not have a day's health all the autumn,
he should not stay out long;
she might be able to leave it by dinner-time.
it a great shame that such a present was not made,
for his father's having many other uses for his money, and a right to spend it as he liked.
Mrs Musgrove was very apt not to give her the precedence that was her due, when they dined at the Great House with other families;
did not see any reason why she was to be considered so much at home as to lose her place.
That she was coming to apologize, and that they should have to spend the evening by themselves,
her poor son gone for ever,
it might, that it probably would, turn out to be the very same Captain Wentworth whom they recollected meeting, once or twice, after their coming back from Clifton -- a very fine young man -- but they could not say whether it was seven or eight years ago,
poor Dick,
poor Dick's having been six months under his care,
hope there would be now no occasion for putting Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry to think that the cottage party, probably, would not like to leave the little boy, to give him the meeting.
The child was to be kept in bed and amused as quietly as possible; but what was there for a father to do? This was quite a female case, and it would be highly absurd in him, who could be of no use at home, to shut himself up. His father very much wished him to meet Captain Wentworth, and there being no sufficient reason against it, he ought to go;
his meaning to dress directly, and dine at the other house.
to let him come and fetch her,
There had been music, singing, talking, laughing, all that was most agreeable; charming manners in Captain Wentworth,
no shyness or reserve; they seemed all to know each other perfectly, and he was coming the very next morning to shoot with Charles. He was to come to breakfast, but not at the Cottage, though that had been proposed at first; but then he had been pressed to come to the Great House instead, and he seemed afraid of being in Mrs Charles Musgrove's way, on account of the child, and therefore, somehow, they hardly knew how, it ended in Charles's being to meet him to breakfast at his father's.
they were just setting off,