Sanditon: Diplomatic Display Cambridge King's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
Poverty & Dependance, do not wantthe imagination of a Man to operate upon.With due exceptions
– Woman feels for Woman verypromptly & compaſsionately. — He
gave the particulars which had led to Clara's ad::miſsion at Sanditon, as no bad
exemplificationof that mixture of Character, that union of Littleneſs with Kindneſs with Good Sensewith even Liberality which he saw in Lady D.Denham — After having avoided being in Londonfor many years,principally on account of these1very Cousins there resident there, who were continuallywriting, inviting &
tormenting her, & whom she was she haddetermined to
keep at an distance, she had been obliged to go therethere last Michaelmas with the certainty of being
detained at leasta fortnight. – She had gone
to an Hotel – livingby her own account, as prudently as
poſsible,to defy the reputed proverbial expensiveneſs of sucha home, &
at the end of three Dayscalling calledfor her Bill, that she
might judge ofher state. — Its' amount was such as
deter::mined her on stayingnot another hour inthe House,
& she was preparing in all the greatanger & perturbation which2 a beleif of verygroſs imposition
there, & an ignorance ofwhere to go for better usage, to leave the Hotel at all hazards, when the Cousins,the politic & lucky Cousins, who seemedalways to havea spy on her, introduced themselves at this
important moment,& learning her situation, persuaded induced her toaccept such a homefor the rest of her Stay as their humbler
Footnotes
- 1.
- 'the' altered to 'these', possibly after the deletion of 'there resident there'. Back to context...
- 2.
- The 'which' clause is left hanging. Back to context...
