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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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she was the happiest creature in the world.
“'Tis too much!”
“by far too much. I do not deserve it. Oh! why is not everybody as happy?"
“I must go instantly to my mother;”
“I would not on any account trifle with her affectionate solicitude; or allow her to hear it from anyone but myself. He is gone to my father already. Oh! Lizzy, to know that what I have to relate will give such pleasure to all my dear family! how shall I bear so much happiness!”
the rapidity and ease with which an affair was finally settled, that had given them so many previous months of suspense and vexation.
“And this,”
“is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! the happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!”
“With my mother up stairs. She will be down in a moment, I dare say.”
all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself.
“Jane, I congratulate you. You will be a very happy woman.”
“You are a good girl;”
"and I have great pleasure in thinking you will be so happily settled. I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.”
“I hope not so. Imprudence or thoughtlessness in money matters would be unpardonable in me.”
“Exceed their income! My dear Mr. Bennet,”
“what are you talking of? Why, he has four or five thousand a year, and very likely more.”
“Oh! my dear, dear Jane, I am so happy! I am sure I shan't get a wink of sleep all night. I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing! I remember, as soon as ever I saw him, when he first came into Hertfordshire last year, I thought how likely it was that you should come together. Oh! he is the handsomest young man that ever was seen!”
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.
“He has made me so happy,”
“by telling me that he was totally ignorant of my being in town last spring! I had not believed it possible.”
“I suspected as much,”
“But how did he account for it?”
“It must have been his sister's doing. They were certainly no friends to his acquaintance with me, which I cannot wonder at, since he might have chosen so much more advantageously in many respects. But when they see, as I trust they will, that their brother is happy with me, they will learn to be contented, and we shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.”
“That is the most unforgiving speech,”
“that I ever heard you utter. Good girl! It would vex me, indeed, to see you again the dupe of Miss Bingley's pretended regard.”
“Would you believe it, Lizzy, that when he went to town last November, he really loved me, and nothing but a persuasion of my being indifferent would have prevented his coming down again!”
“He made a little mistake to be sure; but it is to the credit of his modesty.”
on his diffidence, and the little value he put on his own good qualities.
he had not betrayed the interference of his friend, for, though Jane had the most generous and forgiving heart in the world,
it was a circumstance which must prejudice her against him.
“I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!”
“Oh! Lizzy, why am I thus singled from my family, and blessed above them all! If I could but see you as happy! If there were but such another man for you!”
“If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”
she was.
“Yes, madam,”
"She is my youngest girl but one. My youngest of all is lately married, and my eldest is somewhere about the grounds, walking with a young man, who, I believe, will soon become a part of the family."
“It is nothing in comparison of Rosings, my lady, I dare say; but I assure you it is much larger than Sir William Lucas's.”
they never sat there after dinner,
“May I take the liberty of asking your ladyship whether you left Mr. and Mrs. Collins well.”
to take some refreshment;
“Go, my dear,”
“and show her ladyship about the different walks. I think she will be pleased with the hermitage.”
“How could I ever think her like her nephew?”
“Indeed, you are mistaken, Madam. I have not been at all able to account for the honour of seeing you here.”
“If you believed it impossible to be true,”
“I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What could your ladyship propose by it?”
“Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,”
“I never heard that it was.”
“I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.”
“Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.”

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