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fees, one after another, did the men take who sent him out of the world.
I beseech you, Mr. Parker, no doctors here.'
This lady's character comes out more strongly in a conversation with Mr.
Parker's guest, Miss Charlotte Heywood. Sir Edward Denham with his
sister Esther and Clara Brereton have just left them.
'Charlotte accepted an invitation from Lady Denham to remain with her on
the terrace, when the others adjourned to the library. Lady Denham, like
a true great lady, talked, and talked only of her own concerns, and
Charlotte listened. Taking hold of Charlotte's arm with the ease of one
who felt that any notice from her was a favour, and communicative from
the same sense of importance, or from a natural love of talking, she
immediately said in a tone of great satisfaction, and with a look of arch
sagacity:--
'Miss Esther wants me to invite her and her brother to spend a week with
me at Sanditon House, as I did last summer, but I shan't. She has been
trying to get round me every way with her praise of this and her praise
of that; but I saw what she was about.
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