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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"John, how are you?"
"My poor dear Isabella,"
"How long it is, how terribly long since you were here! And how tired you must be after your journey! You must go to bed early, my dear— and I recommend a little gruel to you before you go.—You and I will have a nice basin of gruel together. My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel."
at its not being taken every evening by every body,
"It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here. I never had much opinion of the sea air."
"Ah! my dear, but Perry had many doubts about the sea doing her any good; and as to myself, I have been long perfectly convinced, though perhaps I never told you so before, that the sea is very rarely of use to any body. I am sure it almost killed me once."
"Why, pretty well; but not quite well. Poor Perry is bilious, and he has not time to take care of himself —
he tells me
he has not time to take care of himself—
which is very sad —
but he is always wanted all round the country.
I suppose there is not a man in such practice anywhere. But then there is not so clever a man any where."
"I hope he will be here to-morrow, for I have a question or two to ask him about myself of some consequence. And, my dear, whenever he comes, you had better let him look at little Bella's throat."
"It is not very likely, my dear, that bathing should have been of use to her—and if I had known you were wanting an embrocation, I would have spoken to —
"Why, pretty well, my dear, upon the whole. But poor Mrs. Bates had a bad cold about a month ago."
he has never known them more general or heavy—except when it has been quite an influenza."
"That has been a good deal the case, my dear; but not to the degree you mention.
Perry says that
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."
"Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there! so far off!—and the air so bad!"
the vicinity of Brunswick Square decidedly the most favourable as to air."
"Ah! my dear, it is not like Hartfield. You make the best of it—but after you have been a week at Hartfield, you are all of you different creatures; you do not look like the same. Now I cannot say, that I think you are any of you looking well at present."
he did not believe he had ever sent us off altogether, in such good case.
"Middling, my dear; I cannot compliment you. I think Mr. John Knightley very far from looking well."
"What is the matter, sir?—Did you speak to me?"
"My dear Isabella,"—
"pray do not concern yourself about my looks. Be satisfied with doctoring and coddling yourself and the children, and let me look as I chuse."
"Our little friend Harriet Smith, however, is just such another pretty kind of young person. You will like Harriet. Emma could not have a better companion than Harriet."
its wholesomeness for every constitution,
the many houses where it was never met with tolerable;—
"Ah!"
"Ah! there is no end of the sad consequences of your going to South End. It does not bear talking of."
"I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn, instead of coming here."
"And, moreover, if you must go to the sea, it had better not have been to South End. South End is an unhealthy place.
Perry
was surprized to hear you had fixed upon South End."
it is entirely a mistake to suppose the place unhealthy;
"You should have gone to Cromer, my dear, if you went anywhere.—Perry was a week at Cromer once, and
he holds it
to be the best of all the sea-bathing places. A fine open sea,
he says,
and very pure air.
And, by what I understand, you might have had lodgings there quite away from the sea— a quarter of a mile off— very comfortable. You should have consulted Perry."
"Ah! my dear,
as Perry says,
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.
This is just what Perry said.
It seemed to him a very ill-judged measure."
"Mr. Perry,"
"would do as well to keep his opinion till it is asked for. Why does he make it any business of his, to wonder at what I do?—at my taking my family to one part of the coast or another?—I may be allowed, I hope, the use of my judgment as well as Mr. Perry.—I want his directions no more than his drugs."

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