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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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concerned to find that Elinor and her sister were so soon to leave town, as she had hoped to see more of them;
to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way,
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.
she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;
— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.
to hope that he had left Mrs. Ferrars very well.
in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;
Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE;