Ah！ young Ladies that have no Money are very much to be pitied！-But'-after a short pause-'if Miss Esther thinks to talk me into inviting them to come and stay at Sanditon House, she will find herself mistaken.-Matters are altered with me since last Summer you know. I have Miss Clara with me now, which makes a great difference.' She spoke this so seriously that Charlotte instantly saw in it the evidence of real penetration and prepared for some fuller remarks-but it was followed only by-'I have no fancy for having my House as full as an Hotel. I should not chuse to have my two Housemaids Time taken up all the morning, in dusting out Bed rooms.-They have Miss Clara's room to put to rights as well as my own every day.-If they had hard Places, they would want Higher Wages. For objections of this Nature, Charlotte was not prepared, and she found it so impossible even to affect sympathy, that she could say nothing.-Lady D. soon added, with great glee-'And besides all this my Dear, am I to be filling my House to the prejudice of Sanditon？-If People want to be by the Sea, why dont they take Lodgings？-Here are a great many empty Houses-three on this very Terrace； no fewer than three Lodging Papers staring us in the face at this very moment, Numbers ,  and . , the Corner House may be too large for them, but either of the two others are nice little snug Houses, very fit for a young Gentleman and his sister-And so, my dear, the next time Miss Esther begins talking about the dampness of Denham Park, and the Good Bathing always does her, I shall advise them to come and take one of these Lodgings for a fortnight-Don't you think that will be very fair？-Charity begins at home you know.'-Charlotte's feelings were divided between amusement and indignation-but indignation had the larger and the increasing share.-She kept her Countenance and she kept a civil Silence. She could not carry her forbearance farther； but without attempting to listen longer, and only conscious that Lady D. was still talking on in the same way, allowed her Thoughts to form themselves into such a Meditation as this.-'She is thoroughly mean. I had not expected any thing so bad.-Mr. P. spoke too mildly of her.-His Judgement is evidently not to be trusted.-His own Goodnature misleads him. He is too kind hearted to see clearly. I must judge for myself.- And their very connection prejudices him.-He has persuaded her to engage in the same Speculation-and because their object in that Line is the same, he fancies she feels like him in others.-But she is very, very mean.-

    I can see no Good in her.-Poor Miss Brereton！-And she makes every body mean about her.-This poor Sir Edward and his Sister,-how far Nature meant them to be respectable I cannot tell,-but they are obliged to be Mean in their Servility to her.-And I am Mean too, in giving her my attention, with the appearance of coinciding with her.-Thus it is, when Rich People are Sordid.'