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

She had had considerable great curiosity to seeMr . Arthur Parker; & having fanciedhim 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 StouterBroad 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 her Feet the whole morning, on Mrs . G.'sGriffiths'sbusineſs or their own, & was stillthe most alert of the three. – Susan

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