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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"And pray, may I ask? —”
“Is it in address that he improves? Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style? — for I dare not hope,” he continued in a lower and more serious tone, “that he is improved in essentials.”
“You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right. His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must only deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by. I only fear that the sort of cautiousness to which you, I imagine, have been alluding, is merely adopted on his visits to his aunt, of whose good opinion and judgement he stands much in awe. His fear of her has always operated, I know, when they were together; and a good deal is to be imputed to his wish of forwarding the match with Miss de Bourgh, which I am certain he has very much at heart.”
“And is Miss Darcy as handsome as her brother?”
“Is your master much at Pemberley in the course of the year?”
“If your master would marry, you might see more of him.”
“There are very few people of whom so much can be said. You are lucky in having such a master.”
as to the date of the building,
as to the time of her having left Longbourn, and of her having stayed in Derbyshire,
of going round the whole park,
it might be beyond a walk.
if she would do him the honour of introducing him to her friends.
to fish there as often as he chose while he continued in the neighbourhood,
to supply him with fishing tackle,
those parts of the stream where there was usually most sport.
business with his steward had occasioned his coming forward a few hours before the rest of the party with whom he had been travelling.
“They will join me early to-morrow,”
“and among them are some who will claim an acquaintance with you — Mr. Bingley and his sisters.”
“There is also one other person in the party,”
“who more particularly wishes to be known to you. Will you allow me, or do I ask too much, to introduce my sister to your acquaintance during your stay at Lambton?”
“He is perfectly well behaved, polite, and unassuming,”
“I was never more surprised than by his behaviour to us. It was more than civil; it was really attentive; and there was no necessity for such attention. His acquaintance with Elizabeth was very trifling.”
“But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities,”
“Your great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him at his word about fishing, as he might change his mind another day, and warn me off his grounds.”
Bingley was also coming to wait on her;
“It is above eight months. We have not met since the 26th of November, when we were all dancing together at Netherfield.”
whether all her sisters were at Longbourn.
their wish of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and Miss Bennet, to dinner at Pemberley, before they left the country.
great pleasure in the certainty of seeing Elizabeth again, having still a great deal to say to her, and many inquiries to make after all their Hertfordshire friends.
the ladies of the family intended a visit to Georgiana that morning.
he perceived no other alteration than her being rather tanned, no miraculous consequence of travelling in the summer.
“Yes,”
“but that was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”
“Good God! what is the matter?”
“I will not detain you a minute; but let me, or let the servant go after Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner. You are not well enough; you cannot go yourself.”
“Let me call your maid. Is there nothing you could take to give you present relief? A glass of wine; shall I get you one? You are very ill.”
“I am grieved indeed,”
“grieved — shocked. But is it certain — absolutely certain?”
“And what has been done, what has been attempted, to recover her?"
“I am afraid you have been long desiring my absence, nor have I anything to plead in excuse of my stay, but real, though unavailing concern. Would to Heaven that anything could be either said or done on my part that might offer consolation to such distress! But I will not torment you with vain wishes, which may seem purposely to ask for your thanks. This unfortunate affair will, I fear, prevent my sister's having the pleasure of seeing you at Pemberley to-day.”
it a happier conclusion than there was at present reason to hope,
his compliments for her relations,
“I have been thinking it over again, Elizabeth,”
“and really, upon serious consideration, I am much more inclined than I was to judge as your eldest sister does on the matter. It appears to me so very unlikely that any young man should form such a design against a girl who is by no means unprotected or friendless, and who was actually staying in his colonel's family, that I am strongly inclined to hope the best. Could he expect that her friends would not step forward? Could he expect to be noticed again by the regiment, after such an affront to Colonel Forster? His temptation is not adequate to the risk!”
“In the first place,”
“there is no absolute proof that they are not gone to Scotland.”
“Well, then — supposing them to be in London. They may be there, though for the purpose of concealment, for no more exceptional purpose. It is not likely that money should be very abundant on either side; and it might strike them that they could be more economically, though less expeditiously, married in London than in Scotland.”
“But can you think that Lydia is so lost to everything but love of him as to consent to live with him on any terms other than marriage?”
he meant to be in London the very next day, and would assist Mr. Bennet in every endeavour for recovering Lydia.
“Do not give way to useless alarm,”