:sidering for what. Their only daughter, who in::herited the ignorance, the insolence, & pride of^her^ parents, was from that Beauty of which she was unreasonably vain, considered by them as anirresistableCreature, and looked up to as the fu::ture restorer, by a SplendidMarriage, of the dig::nity which their reduced Situation and M^r Dudley'sbeing obliged to take orders for a CountryLivinghad so much leſsened. They at once despisedthe ^PercivalsPetersons as people of ^^meanmeno family, and envied them as people of fortune. They were jealous of their being more respected than themselves and while they affected to consider them as ofno Consequence, were continually seeking to leſsenthem in the opinion of the Neighbourhood byScandalous & Malicious reports. Such a family as this, was ill calculated to console Kitty for theloſs of the Wynnes, or to fill up by their Society, those occasionally irksome hours which in so retireda Situation would sometimes occur^^{[..]to her1} for want of aCompanion. Her aunt was most exceſsively fond of her, and miserable if she saw her for a moment