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Like a lot of authors at the time, his books were serialised in magazines. It tended to create a "paid by the word" approach in writers and he's particularly prone to embellishment of both descriptions and dialogue.
And so on. You just have to adjust. Some modern authors deliberately recreate that style in some of their books; if I like the author and the stories, I'll adjust. In the case of Patrick O'Brien, his Aubrey/Maturin books - recreating a slightly different style - just made me want to dig up his corpse so I could brain him with a hardback copy.