To a
report that a large boarding-school was expected she replies, 'Ah, well,
no harm in that. They will stay their six weeks, and out of such a
number who knows but some may be consumptive, and want asses' milk; and I
have two milch asses at this very time. But perhaps the little Misses
may hurt the furniture. I hope they will have a good sharp governess to
look after them.' But she wholly disapproved of Mr. Parker's wish to
secure the residence of a medical man amongst them. 'Why, what should we
do with a doctor here? It would only be encouraging our servants and the
poor to fancy themselves ill, if there was a doctor at hand. Oh, pray
let us have none of that tribe at Sanditon: we go on very well as we are.
There is the sea, and the downs, and my milch asses: and I have told Mrs.
Whitby that if anybody enquires for a chamber horse, they may be supplied
at a fair rate (poor Mr. Hollis's chamber horse, as good as new); and
what can people want more? I have lived seventy good years in the world,
and never took physic, except twice: and never saw the face of a doctor
in all my life on my own account; and I really believe if my poor dear
Sir Harry had never seen one neither, he would have been alive now.
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