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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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his sisters would be successful in keeping him away.
The united efforts of his two unfeeling sisters and of his overpowering friend, assisted by the attractions of Miss Darcy and the amusements of London might be too much,
for the strength of his attachment.
that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination. Had his own happiness, however, been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in whatever manner he thought best, but her sister's was involved in it, as she thought he must be sensible himself.
whether Bingley's regard had really died away, or were suppressed by his friends' interference; whether he had been aware of Jane's attachment, or whether it had escaped his observation; whatever were the case, though her opinion of him must be materially affected by the difference, her sister's situation remained the same, her peace equally wounded.
his attentions to Jane had been merely the effect of a common and transient liking, which ceased when he saw her no more;
she did not consider it entirely hopeless. It was possible, and
probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.
by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
all the comfort of intimacy was over,
Charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen.
Jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from Caroline.
by supposing that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been lost.
accident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sister's being in town.
Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least. All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. She would not even wish for a renewal of his attentions. His character sunk on every review of it; and as a punishment for him, as well as a possible advantage to Jane,
he might really soon marry Mr. Darcy's sister, as by Wickham's account, she would make him abundantly regret what he had thrown away.
His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
there was a solicitude, an interest
must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard;
whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.
he must be often forgotten.
the mere stateliness of money or rank
she could witness without trepidation.
Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
had not been the case.
the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
Charlotte should not prefer the dining-parlour for common use; it was a better sized room, and had a more pleasant aspect;
her friend had an excellent reason for what she did, for Mr. Collins would undoubtedly have been much less in his own apartment, had they sat in one equally lively;
there might be other family livings to be disposed of,
though this great lady was not in the commission of the peace of the county, she was a most active magistrate in her own parish, the minutest concerns of which were carried to her by Mr. Collins; and whenever any of the cottagers were disposed to be quarrelsome, discontented, or too poor, she sallied forth into the village to settle their differences, silence their complaints, and scold them into harmony and plenty.
though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently destined by Lady Catherine,
he looked a little confused
he might have been just as likely to marry her, had she been his relation.
he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield,
there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners,
he might have the best informed mind.
all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought,
it was a favourite haunt of hers.
How it could occur a second time, therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third.
It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
he was asking some odd unconnected questions — about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Collins's happiness;
of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be staying there too.
His words seemed to imply it. Could he have Colonel Fitzwilliam in his thoughts?
if he meant anything, he must mean an allusion to what might arise in that quarter.
To interrupt a silence which might make him fancy her affected with what had passed,
she had somehow or other got pretty near the truth.

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