They were anti-spasmodic, anti-
pulmonary, anti-bilious, and anti-rheumatic. Nobody could catch cold by
the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody
wanted strength. They were healing, softening, relaxing, fortifying, and
bracing, seemingly just as was wanted; sometimes one, sometimes the
other. If the sea breeze failed, the sea-bath was the certain
corrective; and when bathing disagreed, the sea breeze was evidently
designed by nature for the cure. His eloquence, however, could not
prevail. Mr. and Mrs. Heywood never left home. . . . The maintenance,
education, and fitting out of fourteen children demanded a very quiet,
settled, careful course of life; and obliged them to be stationary and
healthy at Willingden. What prudence had at first enjoined was now
rendered pleasant by habit. They never left home, and they had a
gratification in saying so.'
Lady Denham's was a very different character. She was a rich vulgar
widow, with a sharp but narrow mind, who cared for the prosperity of
Sanditon only so far as it might increase the value of her own property.
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