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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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her perfect readiness for the play, if Henrietta and all the others liked it,
however determined to go to Camden Place herself, she should not think herself very well used, if they went to the play without her.
he would go to the play to-morrow if nobody else would.
Mary and Henrietta, too impatient to wait, had gone out the moment it had cleared, but would be back again soon,
the strictest injunctions had been left with Mrs Musgrove to keep her there till they returned.
there had been no fall in the case;
Anne had not at any time lately slipped down, and got a blow on her head;
she was perfectly convinced of having had no fall;
finding her better at night.
It was creditable to have a sister married,
with having been greatly instrumental to the connexion, by keeping Anne with her in the autumn; and as her own sister must be better than her husband's sisters, it was very agreeable that Captain Wentworth should be a richer man than either Captain Benwick or Charles Hayter.
Anne had no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change situations with Anne.