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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"Miss Bates must not be forgotten:"
"Jane!"—
"That is easy—but Miss Fairfax does not disapprove it, I suppose."
"How do you like Mrs. Elton?"
"Not at all."
"You are ungrateful."
"Ungrateful!—What do you mean?"
"No, do not tell me— I do not want to know what you mean.—Where is my father?—When are we to begin dancing?"
"And what are we to do for a proper partner for her?"
"She will think Frank ought to ask her."
"Do not you dance, Mr. Elton?"
"Me!—oh! no —I would get you a better partner than myself. I am no dancer."
"Mrs. Gilbert does not mean to dance, but there is a young lady disengaged whom I should be very glad to see dancing— — Miss Smith."
"Knightley has taken pity on poor little Miss Smith!—Very good-natured, I declare."
"They aimed at wounding more than Harriet,"
"Emma, why is it that they are your enemies?"
"She ought not to be angry with you, I suspect, whatever he may be.—To that surmise, you say nothing, of course; but confess, Emma, that you did want him to marry Harriet."
"I did,"
"and they cannot forgive me."
"I shall not scold you. I leave you to your own reflections."
"Can you trust me with such flatterers?—Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?"
"Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.—If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it."
"I do own myself to have been completely mistaken in Mr. Elton. There is a littleness about him which you discovered, and which I did not: and I was fully convinced of his being in love with Harriet. It was through a series of strange blunders!"
"And, in return for your acknowledging so much, I will do you the justice to say, that you would have chosen for him better than he has chosen for himself.—Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. An unpretending, single-minded, artless girl— infinitely to be preferred by any man of sense and taste to such a woman as Mrs. Elton. I found Harriet more conversable than I expected."
"Come Miss Woodhouse, Miss Otway, Miss Fairfax, what are you all doing?—Come Emma, set your companions the example. Every body is lazy! Every body is asleep!"
"I am ready,"
"whenever I am wanted."
"Whom are you going to dance with?"
"With you, if you will ask me."
"Will you?"
"Indeed I will. You have shewn that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper."
"Brother and sister! no, indeed."
"Yes,"
"I hope I do."
"Not the least in the world.—Did he ever give you any thing?"
"No, indeed I do not."
"My dearest Harriet!"
"you make me more ashamed of myself than I can bear. Remember it? Aye, I remember it all now; all, except your saving this relic— I knew nothing of that till this moment —but the cutting the finger, and my recommending court-plaister, and saying I had none about me!—Oh! my sins, my sins!—And I had plenty all the while in my pocket!—One of my senseless tricks!—I deserve to be under a continual blush all the rest of my life.—Well—
go on— — what else?"
"And so you actually put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!"
"Lord bless me! when should I ever have thought of putting by in cotton a piece of court-plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about! I never was equal to this."
"I do remember it,"
"I perfectly remember it.—Talking about spruce-beer.—Oh! yes— Mr. Knightley and I both saying we liked it, and Mr. Elton's seeming resolved to learn to like it too. I perfectly remember it.—Stop; Mr. Knightley was standing just here, was not he? I have an idea he was standing just here."
"Well, go on."
"My poor dear Harriet! and have you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things?"
"But, Harriet, is it necessary to burn the court-plaister?—I have not a word to say for the bit of old pencil, but the court-plaister might be useful."
"And when,"
"will there be a beginning of Mr. Churchill?"
"Well, Harriet, whenever you marry I would advise you to do so and so"—
"Never marry!—This is a new resolution."

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