Sanditon: Diplomatic Display Cambridge King's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
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 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 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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