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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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for troubling him also with Lizzy.
having promised on his first coming into the country to give a ball at Netherfield.
it would be the most shameful thing in the world if he did not keep it.
no one intended to play,
he could imagine but two motives for their choosing to walk up and down the room together, with either of which motives his joining them would interfere.
“What could he mean?
what could be his meaning”
she could at all understand him?
the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.
they could not possibly have the carriage before Tuesday;
if Mr. Bingley and his sister pressed them to stay longer, she could spare them very well.
it would not be safe for her —
she was not enough recovered;
to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
at their coming,
very wrong to give so much trouble,
Jane would have caught cold again.
Much had been done, and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding Wednesday; several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle, a private had been flogged, and it had actually been hinted that Colonel Forster was going to be married.
against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
having so fine a family of daughters;
he had heard much of their beauty, but that in this instance fame had fallen short of the truth;
he did not doubt her seeing them all in due time well disposed of in marriage.
to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.
they were very well able to keep a good cook,
her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
begged pardon for having displeased her.
herself not at all offended;
he seemed very fortunate in his patroness. Lady Catherine de Bourgh's attention to his wishes, and consideration for his comfort, appeared very remarkable.
to read aloud to the ladies.
he never read novels.
he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
it should not occur again, if he would resume his book;
he bore his young cousin no ill-will, and should never resent her behaviour as any affront,
“As to her younger daughters, she could not take upon her to say — she could not positively answer — but she did not know of any prepossession; her eldest daughter, she must just mention — she felt it incumbent on her to hint, was likely to be very soon engaged.”
to meet with folly and conceit in every other room of the house, he was used to be free from them there;
entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.
on his way to Longbourn on purpose to inquire after her.
What could be the meaning of it?
their sudden return home, which, as their own carriage had not fetched them, she should have known nothing about, if she had not happened to see Mr. Jones's shop-boy in the street, who had told her that
they were not to send any more draughts to Netherfield because the Miss Bennets were come away,
his intrusion, without any previous acquaintance with her, which he could not help flattering himself, however, might be justified by his relationship to the young ladies who introduced him to her notice.
Mr. Denny had brought him from London,
he was to have a lieutenant's commission in the ——shire.
She had been watching him the last hour,
as he walked up and down the street,
“stupid, disagreeable fellows.”
to make her husband call on Mr. Wickham, and give him an invitation also, if the family from Longbourn would come in the evening.
they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.
except Lady Catherine and her daughter, he had never seen a more elegant woman; for she had not only received him with the utmost civility, but had even pointedly included him in her invitation for the next evening, although utterly unknown to her before. Something, he supposed, might be attributed to his connection with them, but yet he had never met with so much attention in the whole course of his life.
Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation, and was then in the house.

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