Sanditon: Diplomatic DisplayCambridgeKing's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
— you will find it at full length Sir" – offering him the two little oblongextracts. — "Sir – said Mr . Heywoodwith a good humoured
smile – ifyou were to shew me all the Newspaperstharet1 are printed in one week
throughoutthe Kingdom, you yowd .would not persuademe of there being a Surgeon in thisParish Willingden, – for haviInghave2having lived hereSirever since I was born, Man & BoySir57 years, and never heard before I thinkwithout ever hearing of theI
must have knownexistence of such a person,at leastbefore. — Ithink I may venture thereforeat least to sayat leastthat he has not much Busineſs.; –3ThoughToto be sure, if Gentlemen were to beoften attempting this Lane in Post--chaises, it might not be a bad Spe::culation for
a Surgeon to get a Houseat the top of the Hill. – But as tothat Cottage, I can aſsure youSir thatit is in fact –
(inspite of its spruce airat this andistance4 –) as indifferent adouble Tenement as any in the Parish.,5and thatMy6Shepherd lives at one end, &
threeold women at the other." He tookthe peicesbits of paper as he spoke – &
having
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- JA wrote 'thare' which she altered to 'that' by overwriting 're' with 't'.Back to context...
- 2.
- 'I have' replaced by 'for having', with 'ng' written over 'I' and 'have' deleted.Back to context...
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- A full stop replaced by semi-colon and dash.Back to context...
- 4.
- 'distance' replaces 'an' (part of an aborted word).Back to context...
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- Comma written over full stop.Back to context...
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- 'My' began a new sentence, which is revised to form a continuing sentence.Back to context...