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Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels

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"and I beg you will contradict it, if you ever hear it talked of."
"I suppose you will go and stay with your brother and sister, Miss Dashwood, when they come to town,"
"No, I do not think we shall."
"Oh, yes, I dare say you will."
"What a charming thing it is that Mrs. Dashwood can spare you both for so long a time together!"
"Long a time, indeed!"
"Why, their visit is but just begun!"
"I am sorry we cannot see your sister, Miss Dashwood,"
"I am sorry she is not well — "
"You are very good. My sister will be equally sorry to miss the pleasure of seeing you; but she has been very much plagued lately with nervous head-aches, which make her unfit for company or conversation."
"Oh, dear, that is a great pity! but such old friends as Lucy and me! — I think she might see US; and I am sure we would not speak a word."
"Oh, if that's all,"
"we can just as well go and see HER."
"Excellent indeed. Their attention to our comfort, their friendliness in every particular, is more than I can express."
"but she was so much engaged with her mother, that really she had no leisure for going any where."
she should not stand upon ceremony, for they were all cousins, or something like it, and she should certainly wait on Mrs. John Dashwood very soon, and bring her sisters to see her.
"Yes; he has very good property in Dorsetshire."
"Me, brother! what do you mean?"
"I believe about two thousand a year."
"Indeed I believe you,"
"but I am very sure that Colonel Brandon has not the smallest wish of marrying ME."
"Is Mr. Edward Ferrars,"
"going to be married?"
"Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."
"More than you think it really and intrinsically worth."
"Certainly,"
"and assisted by her liberality, I hope you may yet live to be in easy circumstances."
"Where is the green-house to be?"
"Nothing at all, I should rather suppose; for she has only her jointure, which will descend to her children."
"And do you not think it more likely that she should leave it to her daughters, than to us?"
"But she raises none in those most concerned. Indeed, brother, your anxiety for our welfare and prosperity carries you too far."
"She is not well, she has had a nervous complaint on her for several weeks."
one of the most charming women in the world!
He dared not come to Bartlett's Buildings for fear of detection, and though their mutual impatience to meet, was not to be told, they could do nothing at present but write.
Edward who lived with his mother, must be asked as his mother was, to a party given by his sister; and to see him for the first time, after all that passed, in the company of Lucy! —
she hardly knew how she could bear it!
Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday,
he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together.
"Pity me, dear Miss Dashwood!"
"There is nobody here but you, that can feel for me. — I declare I can hardly stand. Good gracious! — In a moment I shall see the person that all my happiness depends on — that is to be my mother!" —
she did pity her —
the graciousness of both mother and daughter towards the very person —
whom of all others, had they known as much as she did, they would have been most anxious to mortify;
the boys were both remarkably tall for their age, and could not conceive that there could be the smallest difference in the world between them;
she had no opinion to give, as she had never thought about it.
they were done by Miss Dashwood.
"Hum" —
"very pretty,"
her mother had been quite rude enough, —
"They are very pretty, ma'am — an't they?"

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