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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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join with him in regretting that Lucy's engagement with Edward had not rather been fulfilled, than that she should thus be the means of spreading misery farther in the family. —
in Miss Morton he would have a woman of higher rank and larger fortune;
Miss Morton was the daughter of a nobleman with thirty thousand pounds, while Miss Dashwood was only the daughter of a private gentleman with no more than THREE;
one of the happiest couples in the world.
too old to be married, —
as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.