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Sanditon

Jane Austen

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Sanditon
Chapter I. En route to the coast, Mr and Mrs Parker’s
carriage overturned at Willingden; assisted
by the Heywoods   4
Chapter II. Sanditon the home and enthusiasm of Mr
Parker; Charlotte Heywood to accompany them there 13
Chapter III. Lady Denham, the grand lady of Sanditon,
and her niece Miss Brereton described 18
Chapter IV. The travellers arrive in Sanditon 24
Chapter V. Mr Parker’s relations described; a letter
from the sickly siblings 30
Chapter VI. Charlotte meets Lady Denham and
Clara Brereton 35
Chapter VII. Charlotte meets the young Denhams
and discovers Lady D. to be mean 41
Chapter VIII. Charlotte finds Sir Edward Denham vain
and pretentious; with designs on Clara Brereton 51
Chapter IX. The Parker siblings arrive at Sanditon 55
Chapter X. An evening with the Parkers  62
Chapter XI. The “Camberwell Seminary” arrives
at Sanditon 71
Chapter XII. Sidney Parker arrives in Sanditon;
Charlotte visits Sanditon House 75

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SANDITON

CHAPTER I

Gentleman and Lady travelling from Tunbridge towards

that part of the Sussex Coast which lies between Hastings

and E. Bourne, being induced by Business to quit the high

road, and attempt a very rough Lane, were overturned in toiling

up its long ascent half rock, half sand. The accident happened just

beyond the only Gentleman’s House near the Lane—a House,

which their Driver on being first required to take that direction,

had conceived to be necessarily their object, and had with most

unwilling Looks been constrained to pass by. He had grumbled

and shaken his shoulders so much indeed, and pitied and cut his

Horses so sharply, that he might have been open to the suspicion

of overturning them on purpose (especially as the Carriage was

not his Masters own) if the road had not indisputably become

considerably worse than before, as soon as the premises of the

said House were left behind—expressing with a most intelligent

portentous countenance that beyond it no wheels but cart wheels

could safely proceed. The severity of the fall was broken by their

slow pace and the narrowness of the Lane, and the Gentleman

having scrambled out and helped out his companion, they neither

of them at first felt more than shaken and bruised. But the

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Gentleman had in the course of the extrication sprained his foot—

and soon becoming sensible of it, was obliged in a few moments to

cut short, both his remonstrance to the Driver and his

congratulations to his wife and himself—and sit down on the bank,

unable to stand.—‘There is something wrong here,’ said he—

putting his hand to his ancle—‘But never mind, my Dear (looking

up at her with a smile)—It could not have happened, you know, in

a better place.—Good out of Evil—. The very thing perhaps to be

wished for. We shall soon get relief.—There, I fancy lies my cure’—

pointing to the neat-looking end of a Cottage, which was seen

romantically situated among wood on a high Eminence at some

little Distance—‘Does not that promise to be the very place?’—His

wife fervently hoped it was—but stood, terrified and anxious,

neither able to do or suggest anything—and receiving her first real

comfort from the sight of several persons now coming to their

assistance. The accident had been discerned from a Hayfield

adjoining the House they had passed—and the persons who

approached, were a well-looking Hale, Gentlemanlike Man, of

middle age, the Proprietor of the Place, who happened to be

among his Haymakers at the time, and three or four of the ablest

of them summoned to attend their Master—to say nothing of all

the rest of the field, Men, Women and Children—not very far off.—

Mr. Heywood, such was the name of the said Proprietor, advanced

with a very civil salutation—much concern for the accident—some

surprise at any body’s attempting that road in a Carriage—and

ready offers of assistance. His courtesies were received with Good-

breeding and gratitude and while one or two of the Men lent their

help to the Driver in getting the Carriage upright again, the

Travellor said—‘You are extremely obliging Sir, and I take you at

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your word.—The injury to my Leg is I dare say very trifling, but it

is always best in these cases to have a surgeon’s opinion without

loss of time; and as the road does not seem at present in a

favourable state for my getting up to his house myself, I will thank

you to send off one of these good People for the Surgeon.’ ‘The

Surgeon Sir!’—replied Mr. Heywood—‘I am afraid you will find no

surgeon at hand here, but I dare say we shall do very well without

him.’—‘Nay Sir, if he is not in the way, his Partner will do just as

well—or rather better—. I would rather see his Partner indeed—I

would prefer the attendance of his Partner.—One of these good

people can be with him in three minutes I am sure. I need not ask

whether I see the House; (looking towards the Cottage) for

excepting your own, we have passed none in this place, which can

be the Abode of a Gentleman.’—Mr. H. looked very much

astonished—and replied—‘What Sir! are you expecting to find a

Surgeon in that Cottage?—We have neither Surgeon nor Partner

in the Parish I assure you.’—‘Excuse me Sir’—replied the other. ‘I

am sorry to have the appearance of contradicting you—but though

from the extent of the Parish or some other cause you may not be

aware of the fact;—Stay—Can I be mistaken in the place?—Am I

not in Willingden?—Is not this Willingden?’ ‘Yes Sir, this is

certainly Willingden.’ ‘Then Sir, I can bring proof of your having a

Surgeon in the Parish—whether you may know it or not. Here

Sir—(taking out his Pocket book) if you will do me the favour of

casting your eye over these advertisements, which I cut out myself

from the Morning Post and the Kentish Gazette, only yesterday

morning in London—I think you will be convinced that I am not

speaking at random. You will find it an advertisement Sir, of the

dissolution of a Partnership in the Medical Line—in your own

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Parish—extensive Business—undeniable Character—respectable

references—wishing to form a separate Establishment—You will

find it at full length Sir’—offering him the two little oblong

extracts.—‘Sir’—said Mr. Heywood with a good humoured smile—

‘if you were to shew me all the Newspapers that are printed in one

week throughout the Kingdom, you would not persuade me of

there being a Surgeon in Willingden,—for having lived here ever

since I was born, Man and Boy fifty-seven years, I think I must

have known

of such a person, at least I may venture to say that he

has not much Business—To be sure, if Gentlemen were to be often

attempting this Lane in Post-chaises, it might not be a bad

speculation for a Surgeon to get a House at the top of the Hill—

But as to that Cottage, I can assure you Sir that it is in fact—

(inspite of its spruce air at this distance—) as indifferent a double

Tenement as any in the Parish, and that my Shepherd lives at one

end, and three old women at the other.’ He took the pieces of

paper as he spoke—and having looked them over, added—‘I

believe I can explain it Sir.—Your mistake is in the place.—There

are two Willingdens in this Country—and your advertisements

refer to the other—which is Great Willingden, or Willingden

Abbots, and lies seven miles off; on the other side of Battel—quite

down in the Weald. And we Sir—’ (speaking rather proudly) ‘are

not in the Weald.’—‘Not down in the Weald I am sure Sir,’ replied

the Traveller, pleasantly. ‘It took us half an hour to climb your

Hill.—Well Sir—I dare say it is as you say, and I have made an

abominably stupid Blunder.—All done in a moment;—the

advertisements did not catch my eye till the last half hour of our

being in Town;—when everything was in the hurry and confusion

which always attend a short stay there—One is never able to

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complete anything in the way of Business you know till the

Carriage is at the door—and accordingly satisfying myself with a

brief enquiry, and finding we were actually to pass within a mile

or two of a Willingden, I sought no farther... My Dear—’ (to his

wife) ‘I am very sorry to have brought you into this Scrape. But do

not be alarmed about my Leg. It gives me no pain while I am

quiet,—and as soon as these good people have succeeded in

setting the Carriage to rights and turning the Horses round, the

best thing we can do will be to measure back our steps into the

Turnpike road and proceed to Hailsham, and so Home, without

attempting anything farther.—Two hours take us home, from

Hailsham—And when once at home, we have our remedy at hand

you know.—A little of our own Bracing Sea Air will soon set me on

my feet again.—Depend upon it my Dear, it is exactly a case for

the Sea. Saline air and immersion will be the very thing.—My

sensations tell me so already.’—In a most friendly manner Mr.

Heywood here interposed, entreating them not to think of

proceeding till the ancle had been examined, and some

refreshment taken, and very cordially pressing them to make use

of his House for both purposes.—‘We are always well stocked,’

said he, ‘with all the common remedies for sprains and Bruises—

and I will answer for the pleasure it will give my Wife and

daughters to be of service to you and this Lady in every way in

their power.’—A twinge or two, in trying to move his foot disposed

the Travellor to think rather more as he had done at first of the

benefit of immediate assistance—and consulting his wife in the

few words of ‘Well my Dear, I believe it will be better for us.’—

turned again to Mr. H—and said—‘Before we accept your

Hospitality Sir,—and in order to do away with any unfavourable

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impression which the sort of wild goose-chace you find me in, may

have given rise to—allow me to tell you who we are. My name is

Parker.—Mr. Parker of Sanditon; this Lady, my wife Mrs.

Parker.—We are on our road home from London;—My name

perhaps—tho’ I am by no means the first of my Family, holding

Landed Property in the Parish of Sanditon, may be unknown at

this distance from the Coast—but Sanditon itself—everybody has

heard of Sanditon,—the favourite—for a young and rising

Bathing-place, certainly the favourite spot of all that are to be

found along the coast of Sussex;—the most favoured by Nature,

and promising to be the most chosen by Man.’—‘Yes—I have

heard of Sanditon.’ replied Mr. H.—‘Every five years, one hears of

some new place or other starting up by the Sea, and growing the

fashion.—How they can half of them be filled, is the wonder!

Where

People can be found with Money or Time to go to them!—

Bad things for a Country;—sure to raise the price of Provisions

and make the poor good for nothing—as I dare say you find, Sir.’

‘Not at all Sir, not at all’—cried Mr. Parker eagerly. ‘Quite the

contrary I assure you.—A common idea—but a mistaken one. It

may apply to your large, overgrown Places, like Brighton, or

Worthing, or East Bourne—but not to a small Village like

Sanditon, precluded by its size from experiencing any of the evils

of Civilization, while the growth of the place, the Buildings, the

Nursery Grounds, the demand for every thing, and the sure resort

of the very best Company, those regular, steady, private Families

of thorough Gentility and Character, who are a blessing

everywhere, excite the industry of the Poor and diffuse comfort

and improvement among them of every sort.—No Sir, I assure

you, Sanditon is not a place—’ ‘I do not mean to take exceptions to

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any place in particular Sir,’ answered Mr. H.—‘I only think our

Coast is too full of them altogether—But had we not better try to

get you’—‘Our Coast too full’—repeated Mr. P.—‘On that point

perhaps we may not totally disagree;—at least there are enough.

Our Coast is abundant enough; it demands no more.—Every

body’s Taste and every body’s finances may be suited. And those

good people who are trying to add to the number, are in my

opinion excessively absurd, and must soon find themselves the

Dupes of their own fallacious Calculations.—Such a place as

Sanditon Sir, I may say was wanted, was called for.—Nature had

marked it out—had spoken in most intelligible Characters. The

finest, purest Sea Breeze on the Coast—acknowledged to be so—

Excellent Bathing—fine hard Sand—Deep Water ten yards from

the Shore—no Mud—no Weeds—no slimey rocks—Never was

there a place more palpably designed by Nature for the resort of

the Invalid—the very Spot which Thousands seemed in need of.—

The most desirable distance from London! One complete,

measured mile nearer than East Bourne. Only conceive Sir, the

advantage of saving a whole Mile, in a long Journey. But

Brinshore Sir, which I dare say you have in your eye—the

attempts of two or three speculating People about Brinshore, this

last Year, to raise that paltry Hamlet, lying, as it does between a

stagnant marsh, a bleak Moor and the constant effluvia of a ridge

of putrifying sea weed, can end in nothing but their own

Disappointment. What in the name of Common Sense is to

recommend Brinshore?—A most insalubrious Air—Roads

proverbially detestable—Water Brackish beyond example,

impossible to get a good dish of Tea within three miles of the

place—and as for the Soil—it is so cold and ungrateful that it can

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