Sanditon: Diplomatic DisplayCambridgeKing's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
                                another person's claims to be taken into the account, those of
                                the young female relation,whom Lady D.Denham had been induced to receiveinto her Family.aAfter1 having alwaysprotested against any such
                                addition, depre::cating the
                                        idea of a Companion, defying &
                                    and long & often
                                        enjoyed& enjoying the repeated defeats she hadgiven to every
                                attempt of her relations onthat head, she had been to introduce thisyoung Lady, or that young Lady as a Compa::nion at
                                Sanditon Hall House, she had brought back with her from London
                                last Michaelmasa Miſs Brereton, who bid fair by herMerits to vie in favour with Sir Edw[...]ard2,& to restore secure for herself & her familythat share
                                of the accumulated Property which they
                                had certainly the best rightto inherit.  — Mr . Parker spoke warmly of Clara Brereton,
                                & the interest of hisStory increased very much with theintroduction of such a Character.young Woman. Charlotte listened with more than amuse::ment now; — it was
                                solicitude & Enjoyment,as she heard
                                her delineated described (andnot with to be lovely, amiable, gentle,unaſsuming, conducting herself uniformlywith great good Sense, & evidently gaining by her
                                innate worth, on the affectionsof her Patroneſs.  – Beauty, Sweetneſs,
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- Lower-case 'a' altered to upper-case 'A'.Back to context...
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- 'ard' written over three illegible letters.Back to context...
