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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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requesting the company of her mother and cousins the following evening. Business on Sir John's part, and a violent cold on her own, prevented their calling in Berkeley Street.
it was risking too much for the gratification of a few girls, to have it known that Lady Middleton had given a small dance of eight or nine couple, with two violins, and a mere side-board collation.
said something very droll
how long they had been in town.
it might be many weeks before we met again —
'The lock of hair,
which you so obligingly bestowed on me'
every thing was now finally settled respecting his marriage with Miss Grey — it was no longer to be a secret — it would take place even within a few weeks, with many particulars of preparations and other matters.
as soon as the ceremony was over, they were to go to Combe Magna, his seat in Somersetshire.
greater openness towards them both;
bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.
by all means not to shorten their visit to Mrs. Jennings;
might yet,
cheat Marianne, at times, into some interest beyond herself, and even into some amusement, much as the ideas of both might now be spurned by her.
he and his wife were to be in town before the middle of February,
one of the most charming women in the world!
they were done by Miss Dashwood.
her mother had been quite rude enough, —
the exceedingly great inconvenience of sending her carriage for the Miss Dashwoods,
who could tell that they might not expect to go out with her a second time?
'But how can it be done?'
'my dear Ferrars, do tell me how it is to be managed. There is not a room in this cottage that will hold ten couple, and where can the supper be?'
The expense would be nothing, the inconvenience not more;
it was altogether an attention
requisite to its complete enfranchisement from his promise to his father.
another year would make the invitation needless, by bringing Elinor to town as Colonel Brandon's wife, and Marianne as THEIR visitor.
to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
Mrs. Dashwood had never been so much pleased with any young women in her life, as she was with them; had given each of them a needle book made by some emigrant; called Lucy by her Christian name; and did not know
whether she should ever be able to part with them.
she thought to make a match between Edward and some Lord's daughter or other,
they should not stay a minute longer in the house,
to let them stay till they had packed up their clothes.
she never shall think well of anybody again;
they deserved some attention, were harmless, well-behaved girls, and would be pleasant companions;
'I wish, with all my heart,'
'that we had asked your sisters instead of them.'"
he really believed there was no material danger in Fanny's indisposition, and that they need not therefore be very uneasy about it,
Mrs. Richardson was come in her coach, and would take one of us to Kensington Gardens;
concerned to find that Elinor and her sister were so soon to leave town, as she had hoped to see more of them;
their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two,
to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way,
Marianne Dashwood was dying of a putrid fever at Cleveland — a letter that morning received from Mrs. Jennings declared her danger most imminent — the Palmers are all gone off in a fright,
an old promise about a pointer puppy.
one of the happiest women in the world.
Marianne was restored to her from a danger in which,
her own mistaken judgment in encouraging the unfortunate attachment to Willoughby, had contributed to place her;
something more than gratitude already dawned.
she was sorry for him; — she wished him happy.
every thing had been expressly softened at the time, to spare her from an increase of unhappiness, suffering as she then had suffered for Marianne.
she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.

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