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get him to Sanditon. I should like tohave you acquainted with him. — Andit would be a fine thing forcredit 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 carefulMother, many a pretty Daughter, might itsecure us, to the prejudice of E.East Bourne &Hastings." — They were now approaching theChurch &real2 village of original Sanditon, whichstood at the foot of the HillDown they wereafterwards to ascend – a Hill, whose sidewas covered with the Woods & enclosures ofSanditon House andbut whose Height ended inTop was anopen Downwhere the new Buildgs .Buildings might soon be looked for.overlooking the Sea. A branchonly, of the Valley, winding more obliquelywound towards theSea, gavegiving a paſsage to an inconsiderableStream, & formedforming at its mouth, a 3d -HabitableDivision, in a small clusterof Fishermean's3Houses. — The Villagecontained little more than Cottages, butthe Spirit of the day had been caught, asMr . P.Parker observed with delightgreat 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 GreenCourt 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...
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