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Oh! pray, let us have none of the Tribe at Sanditon. We go on very well as we are. There is the Sea & the Downs & my Milch-asses—& I have told Mrs Whitby that if any body enquires for a Chamber-House, they may be supplied at a fair rate—(poor Mr Hollis's Chamber-House, as good as new)—and what can People want for more?—Here have I lived 70 good years in the world & never took Physic above twice—and never saw the face of a Doctor in all my Life, on my own account.—And I verily beleive if my poor dear Sir Harry had never seen one neither, he wd have been alive now.—Ten fees, one after another, did the Man take who sent him out of the World.—I beseech you Mr Parker, no Doctors here."—The Tea things were brought in.—"Oh! my dear Mrs Parker—you

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