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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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the finest child in the world.
the exceedingly great inconvenience of sending her carriage for the Miss Dashwoods,
who could tell that they might not expect to go out with her a second time?
he was exactly the coxcomb she had heard him described to be by Lucy.
to request her company and her sister's, for some days, in Harley Street, as soon as Lady Middleton could spare them.
Mrs. Dashwood seemed actually working for her, herself; cherishing all her hopes, and promoting all her views!
for such a mark of uncommon kindness, vouchsafed on so short an acquaintance, seemed to declare that the good-will towards her arose from something more than merely malice against herself; and might be brought, by time and address, to do every thing that Lucy wished. Her flattery had already subdued the pride of Lady Middleton, and made an entry into the close heart of Mrs. John Dashwood; and these were effects that laid open the probability of greater.
whether she should ever be able to part with them.
No time was to be lost in undeceiving her, in making her acquainted with the real truth, and in endeavouring to bring her to hear it talked of by others, without betraying that she felt any uneasiness for her sister, or any resentment against Edward.
would ruin him for ever in her good opinion,
feel all her own disappointment over again.
she HAD loved him most sincerely,
so totally unamiable, so absolutely incapable of attaching a sensible man,
if any place could give her ease, Barton must do it.
as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother, whom she so much wished to see, in a more eligible, more comfortable manner, than any other plan could do, and perhaps without any greater delay. From Cleveland, which was within a few miles of Bristol, the distance to Barton was not beyond one day, though a long day's journey; and their mother's servant might easily come there to attend them down; and as there could be no occasion of their staying above a week at Cleveland, they might now be at home in little more than three weeks' time.
to return with her again from Cleveland.
This set the matter beyond a doubt.
she did not think THAT any material objection;
The preferment,
was already provided to enable him to marry; — and SHE, of all people in the world, was fixed on to bestow it!
to undertake the commission with pleasure, if it were really his wish to put off so agreeable an office to another.
no one could so well perform it as himself. It was an office in short, from which, unwilling to give Edward the pain of receiving an obligation from HER, she would have been very glad to be spared herself;
Edward,
was still in town, and fortunately she had heard his address from Miss Steele. She could undertake therefore to inform him of it, in the course of the day.
Why Mr. Ferrars was to have been written to about it in such a hurry,
Miss Dashwood was above, and wanted to speak with him on very particular business.
however difficult it might be to express herself properly by letter, it was at least preferable to giving the information by word of mouth,
the probability of their not waiting for any thing more.
she had never seen him in such spirits before in her life.
no exertion for their good on Miss Dashwood's part, either present or future, would ever surprise her, for she believed her capable of doing any thing in the world for those she really valued.
she was not only ready to worship him as a saint, but was moreover truly anxious that he should be treated as one in all worldly concerns; anxious that his tithes should be raised to the utmost;
she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.
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,
all her friends seemed determined to send her to Delaford; — a place, in which, of all others, she would now least chuse to visit, or wish to reside;
from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
perfectly the gentleman in his behaviour to all his visitors, and only occasionally rude to his wife and her mother; she found him very capable of being a pleasant companion, and only prevented from being so always, by too great an aptitude to fancy himself as much superior to people in general, as he must feel himself to be to Mrs. Jennings and Charlotte. For the rest of his character and habits, they were marked, as far as Elinor could perceive, with no traits at all unusual in his sex and time of life. He was nice in his eating, uncertain in his hours; fond of his child, though affecting to slight it; and idled away the mornings at billiards, which ought to have been devoted to business. She liked him, however, upon the whole, much better than she had expected, and in her heart was not sorry that she could like him no more; — not sorry to be driven by the observation of his Epicurism, his selfishness, and his conceit, to rest with complacency on the remembrance of Edward's generous temper, simple taste, and diffident feelings.
she was better,
the necessity of her immediate removal with her infant;
her resolution of not stirring from Cleveland as long as Marianne remained ill, and of endeavouring, by her own attentive care, to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from;
to send the Colonel away while his love was in so much uneasiness on her sister's account, would be to deprive them both,
of every comfort;
his stay at Cleveland was necessary to herself, that she should want him to play at piquet of an evening, while Miss Dashwood was above with her sister,
Marianne would never get over it,
It was lower and quicker than ever!
The comfort of such a friend at that moment as Colonel Brandon — or such a companion for her mother, —
a companion whose judgment would guide, whose attendance must relieve, and whose friendship might soothe her! — as far as the shock of such a summons COULD be lessened to her, his presence, his manners, his assistance, would lessen it.
all relief might soon be in vain, that every thing had been delayed too long,
Marianne might probably be to HER what Charlotte was to herself,
At ten o'clock,