Sanditon: Diplomatic Display Cambridge King's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
get him to
Sanditon. I should like tohave you acquainted with him. — Andit would be a fine thing for credit to the Place! – Sucha young Man as Sidney, with
his neatequipage & fashionable air, –
You & IMary, know what effect it might
have."1Many a respectable Family, many a careful Mother, many a pretty Daughter, might itsecure us, to the prejudice of E.East Bourne &Hastings." — They were now approaching the Church &real2 village of original Sanditon, whichstood at the foot of the Hill Down they wereafterwards to ascend –
a Hill, whose sidewas covered with the
Woods & enclosures ofSanditon
House and but whose Height ended in Top was anopen Downwhere the new Buildgs .Buildings might soon be looked for. overlooking the Sea. A branchonly, of the Valley, winding
more obliquely wound towards the Sea, gave giving a paſsage to an inconsiderable Stream, & formed forming at its mouth, a 3d - Habitable Division, in a small clusterof Fishermean's3 Houses. — The Villagecontained little more than Cottages, butthe Spirit of the day had been caught, asMr . P.Parker observed with delight great pleasure to Charlotte, & two or three of the best
of them were smartened up with awhite Curtain & "Lodgings to let" —, andfarther on, in the little Green Court ofan old Farm
House, were actually two
Footnotes
- 1.
- Austen originally ended the speech here, then continued it, failing to remove this set of closing quotation marks. Back to context...
- 2.
- RWC reads 'real' as 'neat'. Back to context...
- 3.
- 'Fishermen's' altered to 'Fisherman's' by writing 'a' over second 'e'. Back to context...