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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"have their pleasures at Brighton, and I hope are very happy; but the dance which I think of giving at Mansfield will be for their cousins. Could we be all assembled, our satisfaction would undoubtedly be more complete, but the absence of some is not to debar the others of amusement."
"that she was not at all afraid of the trouble; indeed, she could not imagine there would be any."
with all necessary allowance for the shortness of the notice, to collect young people enough to form twelve or fourteen couple:
to fix on the 22nd as the most eligible day.
William was required to be at Portsmouth on the 24th; the 22nd would therefore be the last day of his visit; but where the days were so few it would be unwise to fix on any earlier.
His nephew's introduction to Admiral Crawford might be of service. The Admiral,
had interest.
Fanny, preparing for a ball, might be glad of better help than the upper housemaid's,
"Yes,"
"she looks very well. I sent Chapman to her."
"It must be so, my dear,"
education and manners she owed to him.
"Yes, she does look very well,"
"Chapman helped her to dress. I sent Chapman to her."
"So soon! my good friend,"
"it is three o'clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours."
"What! Did she think of being up before you set off?"
"You had better not. He is to have breakfasted and be gone by half-past nine. Mr. Crawford, I think you call for him at half-past nine?"
join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone: he should himself be of it;
the suspicions whence, he must confess to himself, this very ball had in great measure sprung, were well founded.
Mr. Crawford was in love with Fanny.
advising her to go immediately to bed.
"Advise"
"She could not recollect what it was that she had heard about one of the Miss Maddoxes, or what it was that Lady Prescott had noticed in Fanny: she was not sure whether Colonel Harrison had been talking of Mr. Crawford or of William when he said he was the finest young man in the room— somebody had whispered something to her; she had forgot to ask Sir Thomas what it could be."
"Yes, yes; very well; did you? did he? I did not see that; I should not know one from the other."
"I cannot think what is the matter with me,"
"I feel quite stupid. It must be sitting up so late last night. Fanny, you must do something to keep me awake. I cannot work. Fetch the cards; I feel so very stupid."
"We miss our two young men,"
"And there is no reason to suppose,"
"but that his visits to us may now be tolerably frequent. As to Edmund, we must learn to do without him. This will be the last winter of his belonging to us, as he has done."
"Yes,"
"but I wish he was not going away. They are all going away, I think. I wish they would stay at home."
it best for each daughter that the permission should be granted,
"Yes";
"Sir Thomas, I have been thinking— and I am very glad we took Fanny as we did, for now the others are away we feel the good of it."
"Very true. We shew Fanny what a good girl we think her by praising her to her face, she is now a very valuable companion. If we have been kind to her, she is now quite as necessary to us."
"Yes,"
"and it is a comfort to think that we shall always have her."
"She will never leave us, I hope, till invited to some other home that may reasonably promise her greater happiness than she knows here."
"And that is not very likely to be, Sir Thomas. Who should invite her? Maria might be very glad to see her at Sotherton now and then, but she would not think of asking her to live there; and I am sure she is better off here; and besides, I cannot do without her."
being waited for,
"Let Sir Thomas know"
"I am glad you gave him something considerable,"
"for I gave him only 10."
"Sir Thomas told me 10 would be enough."
"Very true, sister, as you say. But, poor things! they cannot help it; and you know it makes very little difference to Sir Thomas. Fanny, William must not forget my shawl if he goes to the East Indies; and I shall give him a commission for anything else that is worth having. I wish he may go to the East Indies, that I may have my shawl. I think I will have two shawls, Fanny."
if he might come in.
"Why have you no fire to-day?"
"But you have a fire in general?"
"How comes this about? Here must be some mistake. I understood that you had the use of this room by way of making you perfectly comfortable. In your bedchamber I know you cannot have a fire. Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified. It is highly unfit for you to sit, be it only half an hour a day, without a fire. You are not strong. You are chilly. Your aunt cannot be aware of this."