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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.
to have the goodness to walk on, and she would follow in half a minute.
at least getting Harriet into the house,
he had seen them go by, and had purposely followed them;
it had been the occasion of much present enjoyment to both, and must be leading them forward to the great event.
quietly whether there were any doubts of the air of Randalls.
to assure me that there was no scarlet fever at Cobham,
She would keep the peace if possible; and there was something honourable and valuable in the strong domestic habits, the all-sufficiency of home to himself, whence resulted her brother's disposition to look down on the common rate of social intercourse, and those to whom it was important.—It had a high claim to forbearance.
they might now become friends again.
it was time to make up. Making-up indeed would not do. She certainly had not been in the wrong, and he would never own that he had. Concession must be out of the question; but it was time to appear to forget that they had ever quarrelled;
they were friends again;
at its not being taken every evening by every body,
he has not time to take care of himself—
but he is always wanted all round the country.
he has never known them more general or heavy—except when it has been quite an influenza."
colds have been very general, but not so heavy as he has very often known them in November. Perry does not call it altogether a sickly season."
the vicinity of Brunswick Square decidedly the most favourable as to air."
he did not believe he had ever sent us off altogether, in such good case.
its wholesomeness for every constitution,
the many houses where it was never met with tolerable;—
her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin. Often as she had wished for and ordered it, she had never been able to get any thing tolerable.
"Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End. It does not bear talking of."
he would not talk of it,
was surprized to hear you had fixed upon South End."
it is entirely a mistake to suppose the place unhealthy;
to be the best of all the sea-bathing places. A fine open sea,
and very pure air.
"Ah! my dear,
where health is at stake, nothing else should be considered; and if one is to travel, there is not much to chuse between forty miles and an hundred.—Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.
It seemed to him a very ill-judged measure."
they might in one of the carriages find room for Harriet also.
how much Mr. Elton's would be depressed when he knew her state;
his having a most comfortless visit, and
their all missing her very much.
had been going to inquire, that he might carry some report of her to Hartfield—
having extricated him from Randalls, and secured him the power of sending to inquire after Harriet every hour of the evening.
a seat in his carriage, if the weather were Mr. Elton's only objection,
he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report;
the blunders which often arise from a partial knowledge of circumstances, of the mistakes which people of high pretensions to judgment are for ever falling into;
he must have received a different account of Harriet from what had reached her.
Miss Smith was not better, by no means better, rather worse.
Harriet seemed quite forgotten in the expectation of a pleasant party.
to think as little as possible of Mr. Elton's oddities, or of any thing else unpleasant, and enjoy all that was enjoyable to the utmost.
if she were to marry, he was the very person to suit her in age, character and condition. He seemed by this connexion between the families, quite to belong to her. She could not but suppose it to be a match that every body who knew them must think of.
the rest of the visit could not possibly pass without bringing forward the same information again, or the substance of it, from the open-hearted Mr. Weston.—
she knew the first meeting must be rather alarming.
she should be very glad to be secure of undergoing the anxiety of a first meeting at the time talked of:
she had been alone with Mrs. Weston.
to refrain from visiting the sick-chamber again, for the present —
to promise him not to venture into such hazard till he had seen Mr. Perry and learnt his opinion;

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