Lady a suitable knowledge of the Person wh with whom she might now expect tobe daily aſsociating. — Lady D.Denham had been arich Miſs Brereton, born to Wealth butnot to Education. Her first Husband hadbeen a M^r . Hollis, a man of considerable Pro::perty in the Country, of which a large shareof the Parish of Sanditon, with Manor & Mansion House made a part. He had been quite an elderly Man when she marriedhim; – her own age about 30. – Her motivesfor such a Match could be little understood at the distance of 40 years, but she had sowell nursed & pleased M^r . Hollis, that at hisdeath he left her everything – all his PEstates¹,& all at her Disposal. After a widowhood of some years, she had been induced to marry again. The late Sir Harry Denham,of Denham Park in the Neighbourhood of Sanditon had succeeded in removing her& her large Income to his own Domains,but he c^d .could not succeed in the veiws ofpermanently enriching his family, whi[..]ch² were attributed to him. She had been too wary to put anything out of her own Power — and when on Sir Harry's Deceaseshe returned again to her own House