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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“Oh, no!”
“In essentials, I believe, he is very much what he ever was.”
“When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that either his mind or his manners were in a state of improvement, but that, from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood.”
he wanted to engage her on the old subject of his grievances,
the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage,
the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents; talents, which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
“But it is fortunate,”
“that I have something to wish for. Were the whole arrangement complete, my disappointment would be certain. But here, by carrying with me one ceaseless source of regret in my sister's absence, I may reasonably hope to have all my expectations of pleasure realised. A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”
they were just returned from the library, where such and such officers had attended them, and where she had seen such beautiful ornaments as made her quite wild; that she had a new gown, or a new parasol, which she would have described more fully, but was obliged to leave off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going off to the camp;
by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
there might have been time enough.
“But surely,”
“I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.”
she had no business at Pemberley,
She must own that she was tired of seeing great houses; after going over so many, she really had no pleasure in fine carpets or satin curtains.
The possibility of meeting Mr. Darcy, while viewing the place,
It would be dreadful!
it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk.
it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries as to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
whether Pemberley were not a very fine place? what was the name of its proprietor? and,
whether the family were down for the summer?
she had not really any dislike to the scheme.
a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
lest the chambermaid had been mistaken.
her being where she was.
a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil,
it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
“And of this place,”
“I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no,”
that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me; I should not have been allowed to invite them.”
whether her master was really absent,
their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
“A little.”
“Yes, very handsome.”
for Mr. Wickham's being among them.
“Except,
"when she goes to Ramsgate.”
“It is very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
This was praise, of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her ideas.
That he was not a good-tempered man
“Can this be Mr. Darcy?”
“In what an amiable light does this place him!”
“Perhaps we might be deceived.”
“He is certainly a good brother,”
with such a smile over the face as she remembered to have sometimes seen when he looked at her.
The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs. Reynolds was of no trifling nature.
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master,
how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! — how much of pleasure or pain was it in his power to bestow! — how much of good or evil must be done by him!

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