Sanditon: Diplomatic Display Cambridge King's College Cambridge, No Accession Number
looked them over, added — "I beleive Ican explain
it Sir. — Your mistake isin the place. — There are two Willing::dens in this Country — & your adver::tisements refer to the other — which is
Great Willingden, or Willingden Abbots, & lies 7 miles
off, on the other sideof 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, repliedthe Travellor, pleasantly.
It took ushalf an hour to climb your Hill. –Well Sir —
I dare say it is as you say, & I have made an
abominably stupid Blunder. — All done in a
moment; – the advertisements did not catch
myeye till thelast half hour of our beingin Town —; whereen1 [.]everything2was being inin
the hurry & confusion which always attend
ashort stay there –One is never nothing able to becompletedanything in the way of Busineſsyou know till the Carriage is at the
door —and Iaccordingly
satisfying satisfied myself with a breif enquiry,& finding we were
actually to paſs
Footnotes
- 1.
- 'where' is altered 'when'. Back to context...
- 2.
- First 'e' written over a single illegible character. Back to context...