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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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she might as well have held her tongue.
they had never been so happy in their lives as this intelligence made them.
it was now a matter of unconcern whether she went to town or not,
so short had their acquaintance with that lady been, so wholly unsuited were they in age and disposition, and so many had been her objections against such a measure only a few days before!
how gladly she would engage in the solicitude of Marianne's situation to have the same animating object in view, the same possibility of hope.
A short, a very short time however must now decide what Willoughby's intentions were; in all probability he was already in town.
Marianne's eagerness to be gone declared her dependence on finding him there;
she must then learn to avoid every selfish comparison, and banish every regret which might lessen her satisfaction in the happiness of Marianne.
she must then be writing to Willoughby;
that, however mysteriously they might wish to conduct the affair,
they must be engaged.
to get that letter conveyed for her to the two-penny post.
she was,
head-aches, low spirits, and over fatigues;
his pleasure at seeing them in London,
whether Willoughby were then in town,
if he had been in London ever since she had seen him last.
if appearances continued many days longer as unpleasant as they now were, she would represent in the strongest manner to her mother the necessity of some serious enquiry into the affair.
to write the next morning to her mother, and hoped by awakening her fears for the health of Marianne, to procure those inquiries which had been so long delayed;
could not suppose it to be to any other person.
when he was to congratulate her on the acquisition of a brother?
what he meant?
The real state of things between Willoughby and her sister was so little known to herself, that in endeavouring to explain it, she might be as liable to say too much as too little.
Marianne's affection for Willoughby, could leave no hope of Colonel Brandon's success, whatever the event of that affection might be,
though she had never been informed by themselves of the terms on which they stood with each other, of their mutual affection she had no doubt, and of their correspondence she was not astonished to hear.
he was gone,
would entreat Lady Middleton to take them home, as she was too miserable to stay a minute longer.
some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne
Willoughby was weary of it,
for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, SHE could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind. Nothing but a thorough change of sentiment could account for it.
Absence might have weakened his regard, and convenience might have determined him to overcome it, but that such a regard had formerly existed she could not bring herself to doubt.
while she could
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Edward as much as ever, however they might be divided in future, her mind might be always supported. But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby — in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.
not to speak to her for the world.
it must come from Willoughby,
Willoughby capable of departing so far from the appearance of every honourable and delicate feeling — so far from the common decorum of a gentleman, as to send a letter so impudently cruel: a letter which, instead of bringing with his desire of a release any professions of regret, acknowledged no breach of faith, denied all peculiar affection whatever — a letter of which every line was an insult, and which proclaimed its writer to be deep in hardened villainy.
they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.
she believed Mr. and Mrs. Ellison would not be sorry to have Miss Grey married, for she and Mrs. Ellison could never agree." —
No positive engagement
though its effects on a colicky gout were, at present, of little importance to her, its healing powers, on a disappointed heart might be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister.
his seduction and desertion of Miss Williams, the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his designs might ONCE have been on herself,
entirely wrong, formed on mistaken grounds, and that by requiring her longer continuance in London it deprived her of the only possible alleviation of her wretchedness, the personal sympathy of her mother, and doomed her to such society and such scenes as must prevent her ever knowing a moment's rest.
what brought evil to herself would bring good to her sister;
though their longer stay would therefore militate against her own happiness, it would be better for Marianne than an immediate return into Devonshire.
he was married.
He dared not come to Bartlett's Buildings for fear of detection, and though their mutual impatience to meet, was not to be told, they could do nothing at present but write.
Edward who lived with his mother, must be asked as his mother was, to a party given by his sister; and to see him for the first time, after all that passed, in the company of Lucy! —
she hardly knew how she could bear it!
Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday,