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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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“Your examination of Mr. Darcy is over, I presume,”
“and pray what is the result?”
“I am perfectly convinced by it that Mr. Darcy has no defect. He owns it himself without disguise.”
“That is a failing indeed!”
“Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it. You are safe from me.”
“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.”
“Do let us have a little music,”
“Louisa, you will not mind my waking Mr. Hurst?”
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.
at their coming,
very wrong to give so much trouble,
Jane would have caught cold again.
“Who do you mean, my dear? I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in — and I hope my dinners are good enough for her. I do not believe she often sees such at home.”
“A gentleman and a stranger! It is Mr. Bingley, I am sure. Why Jane — you never dropt a word of this; you sly thing! Well, I am sure I shall be extremely glad to see Mr. Bingley. But — good Lord! how unlucky! There is not a bit of fish to be got to-day. Lydia, my love, ring the bell — I must speak to Hill this moment.”
“Oh! my dear,”
“I cannot bear to hear that mentioned. Pray do not talk of that odious man. I do think it is the hardest thing in the world, that your estate should be entailed away from your own children; and I am sure, if I had been you, I should have tried long ago to do something or other about it.”
against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour of a man whom nobody cared anything about.
“No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could he not keep on quarreling with you, as his father did before him?”
“There is some sense in what he says about the girls however, and if he is disposed to make them any amends, I shall not be the person to discourage him.”
“Though it is difficult,”
“to guess in what way he can mean to make us the atonement he thinks our due, the wish is certainly to his credit.”
“He must be an oddity, I think,”
“I cannot make him out. — There is something very pompous in his style. — And what can he mean by apologising for being next in the entail? — We cannot suppose he would help it if he could. — Could he be a sensible man, sir?”
“In point of composition,”
“the letter does not seem defective. The idea of the olive-branch perhaps is not wholly new, yet I think it is well expressed.”
“You are very kind, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may prove so, for else they will be destitute enough. Things are settled so oddly.”
“Ah! sir, I do indeed. It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess. Not that I mean to find fault with you, for such things I know are all chance in this world. There is no knowing how estates will go when once they come to be entailed.”
they were very well able to keep a good cook,
her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen.
herself not at all offended;
“That is all very proper and civil, I am sure,”
“and I dare say she is a very agreeable woman. It is a pity that great ladies in general are not more like her. Does she live near you, sir?”
“I think you said she was a widow, sir? Has she any family?”
“Ah!”
“then she is better off than many girls. And what sort of young lady is she? Is she handsome?”
“Has she been presented? I do not remember her name among the ladies at court.”
“Do you know, mamma,
that
My aunt told me so herself on Saturday. I shall walk to Meryton to-morrow to hear more about it, and to ask when Mr. Denny comes back from town.”
“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.”
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
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,
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.

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