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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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it would be better to speak openly to her aunt than to run such a risk.
it could be the last resource, if her private inquiries as to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered.
whether Pemberley were not a very fine place? what was the name of its proprietor? and,
whether the family were down for the summer?
she had not really any dislike to the scheme.
a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
lest the chambermaid had been mistaken.
her being where she was.
a respectable-looking elderly woman, much less fine, and more civil,
it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.
“And of this place,”
“I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no,”
that could never be; my uncle and aunt would have been lost to me; I should not have been allowed to invite them.”
whether her master was really absent,
he was,
“But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.”
their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
how she liked it.
it was a picture of a young gentleman, the son of her late master's steward, who had been brought up by him at his own expense.
“He is now gone into the army,”
“but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.”
“And that,”
“is my master — and very like him. It was drawn at the same time as the other — about eight years ago.”
“I have heard much of your master's fine person,”
“it is a handsome face. But, Lizzy, you can tell us whether it is like or not.”
“Does that young lady know Mr. Darcy?”
“A little.”
“And do not you think him a very handsome gentleman, ma'am?”
“Yes, very handsome.”
“I am sure I know none so handsome; but in the gallery upstairs you will see a finer, larger picture of him than this. This room was my late master's favourite room, and these miniatures are just as they used to be then. He was very fond of them.”
for Mr. Wickham's being among them.
“Oh! yes — the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so accomplished! — She plays and sings all day long. In the next room is a new instrument just come down for her — a present from my master; she comes here to-morrow with him.”
“Not so much as I could wish, sir; but I dare say he may spend half his time here; and Miss Darcy is always down for the summer months.”
“Except,
"when she goes to Ramsgate.”
“Yes, sir; but I do not know when that will be. I do not know who is good enough for him.”
“It is very much to his credit, I am sure, that you should think so.”
“I say no more than the truth, and everybody will say that knows him,”
“I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
This was praise, of all others most extraordinary, most opposite to her ideas.
That he was not a good-tempered man
“Yes, sir, I know I am. If I were to go through the world, I could not meet with a better. But I have always observed, that they who are good-natured when children, are good-natured when they grow up; and he was always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world.”
“Can this be Mr. Darcy?”
“His father was an excellent man,”
"Yes, ma'am, that he was indeed; and his son will be just like him — just as affable to the poor.”
“He is the best landlord, and the best master,”
“that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves. There is not one of his tenants or servants but what will give him a good name. Some people call him proud; but I am sure I never saw anything of it. To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
“In what an amiable light does this place him!”
“This fine account of him,”

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