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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“I must say it, though I am his mother, that there is not a more agreeable young man in the world.”
“I dare say she thought I was speaking of her son.”
“Do just as you please, my dear,”
“Well, my dear, here you are,”
“and I hope you have had a pleasant airing?”
“So
Mrs. Thorpe said;
she was vastly pleased at your all going.”
“Yes, I went to the pump-room as soon as you were gone, and there I met her, and we had a great deal of talk together.
She says
there was hardly any veal to be got at market this morning, it is so uncommonly scarce.”
“Yes; we agreed to take a turn in the Crescent, and there we met Mrs. Hughes, and Mr. and Miss Tilney walking with her.”
“Yes, we walked along the Crescent together for half an hour. They seem very agreeable people. Miss Tilney was in a very pretty spotted muslin, and I fancy, by what I can learn, that she always dresses very handsomely. Mrs. Hughes talked to me a great deal about the family.”
“Oh! A vast deal indeed; she hardly talked of anything else.”
“Yes, she did; but I cannot recollect now. But they are very good kind of people, and very rich.
Mrs. Tilney was a Miss Drummond, and she and Mrs. Hughes were schoolfellows; and Miss Drummond had a very large fortune; and, when she married, her father gave her twenty thousand pounds, and five hundred to buy wedding-clothes. Mrs. Hughes saw all the clothes after they came from the warehouse.”
“Yes, I fancy they are, but I am not quite certain. Upon recollection, however, I have a notion they are both dead; at least the mother is; yes, I am sure Mrs. Tilney is dead, because
Mrs. Hughes told me
there was a very beautiful set of pearls that Mr. Drummond gave his daughter on her wedding-day and that Miss Tilney has got now, for they were put by for her when her mother died.”
“I cannot be quite positive about that, my dear; I have some idea he is; but, however,
he is a very fine young man,
Mrs. Hughes says,
and likely to do very well.”
he is the most delightful young man in the world; she saw him this morning,
she was ready to go.
“She had no doubt in the world of its being a very fine day, if the clouds would only go off, and the sun keep out.”
“I thought how it would be,”
“Perhaps it may, but then, my dear, it will be so dirty.”
“No,”
“I know you never mind dirt.”
“So it does indeed. If it keeps raining, the streets will be very wet.”
“They are disagreeable things to carry. I would much rather take a chair at any time.”
“Anybody would have thought so indeed. There will be very few people in the pump-room, if it rains all the morning. I hope Mr. Allen will put on his greatcoat when he goes, but I dare say he will not, for he had rather do anything in the world than walk out in a greatcoat; I wonder he should dislike it, it must be so comfortable.”
“You will not be able to go, my dear.”
“always thought it would clear up.”
“Just as you please, my dear.”
“Well, my dear,
“suppose you go.”
“I am glad your brother had so much sense; I am glad you are come back. It was a strange, wild scheme.”
“Go, by all means, my dear; only put on a white gown; Miss Tilney always wears white.”
“My dear, you tumble my gown,”
“Yes, very much so indeed. Open carriages are nasty things. A clean gown is not five minutes’ wear in them. You are splashed getting in and getting out; and the wind takes your hair and your bonnet in every direction. I hate an open carriage myself.”
“Yes, my dear, a very odd appearance indeed. I cannot bear to see it.”
“And so I should, my dear, you may depend on it; for as I told Mrs. Morland at parting, I would always do the best for you in my power. But one must not be over particular.
Young people will be young people,
as your good mother says herself.
You know I wanted you, when we first came, not to buy that sprigged muslin, but you would. Young people do not like to be always thwarted.”
“That is just what I was going to say,”
nothing of any of them.
“dear John”