She talked however, the whole Evening,as inceſsantly as Diana – & excepting¹ that she sat with salts in her hand, tookDrops two or three times from one, outof ^^{the several}manyPhials already ^{at home}domesticatedon the Mantlepeice, – & made a great many odd faces & contortions, Charlottecould perceive no ^symptomssig^ns of illneſs whichshe, in the boldneſs of her own goodhealth, w^d .would not have undertaken to cure, by putting out the fire, openingthe Window, & disposing of the Drops&^^theSalts by means of one or the other.

She had had ^considerablegreat curiosity to seeM^r . Arthur Parker; & having fancied^^him avery puny, delicate-looking young Man, the smallest very materially of not arobust Family, was astonished to findhim quite as tall as his Brother & agreat deal Stouter —Broad made &Lusty — and excepting with no otherlook of an Invalide, than a soddencomplexion. — Diana was evidentlythe cheif of the family; principalmover & Actor; – she had been on herFeet the whole morning, on M^rs . G.'sGriffiths'sbusineſs or their own, & was stillthe most alert of the three. – Susan