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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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if he did not come back she would think herself very ill used.
they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house, as soon as Mr. Bennet were dead.
their being all settled in London for the winter,
her brother's regret at not having had time to pay his respects to his friends in Hertfordshire before he left the country.
that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination. Had his own happiness, however, been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it in whatever manner he thought best, but her sister's was involved in it, as she thought he must be sensible himself.
whether Bingley's regard had really died away, or were suppressed by his friends' interference; whether he had been aware of Jane's attachment, or whether it had escaped his observation; whatever were the case, though her opinion of him must be materially affected by the difference, her sister's situation remained the same, her peace equally wounded.
his attentions to Jane had been merely the effect of a common and transient liking, which ceased when he saw her no more;
Mr. Bingley must be down again in the summer.
shortly after his next return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men.
his fair cousins health and happiness again,
their father another letter of thanks.
They had all been very ill-used since she last saw her sister. Two of her girls had been upon the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
she did not consider it entirely hopeless. It was possible, and
probable, that his affection might be reanimated, and the influence of his friends successfully combated by the more natural influence of Jane's attractions.
by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it,
was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.
she was,
all the comfort of intimacy was over,
Charlotte expressed herself on every point exactly as she might have foreseen.
Jane had been a week in town without either seeing or hearing from Caroline.
by supposing that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been lost.
accident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sister's being in town.
Jane would no longer be duped, by the sister at least. All expectation from the brother was now absolutely over. She would not even wish for a renewal of his attentions. His character sunk on every review of it; and as a punishment for him, as well as a possible advantage to Jane,
he might really soon marry Mr. Darcy's sister, as by Wickham's account, she would make him abundantly regret what he had thrown away.
His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.
Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
trusting their opinion of her — their opinion of everybody — would always coincide,
there was a solicitude, an interest
must ever attach her to him with a most sincere regard;
whether married or single, he must always be her model of the amiable and pleasing.
to his humble abode,
in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
she could have so cheerful an air with such a companion.
he must be often forgotten.
congratulate them on their good fortune,
letting them know that the whole party was asked to dine at Rosings the next day.
recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner.
the mere stateliness of money or rank
she could witness without trepidation.
Lady Catherine to be exactly what he had represented.
it was much better worth looking at in the summer.
to try some other dish,
she was indisposed.
nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.
was a very genteel, pretty kind of girl.
how many sisters she had, whether they were older or younger than herself, whether any of them were likely to be married, whether they were handsome, where they had been educated, what carriage her father kept, and what had been her mother's maiden name?
had not been the case.
the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence.
Miss de Bourgh's being too hot or too cold, or having too much or too little light.

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