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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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[Picture:
Meekly
going
to
her
pasture]
Captain
Brown
had
taken
a
small
house
on
the
outskirts
of
the
town,
where
he
lived
with
his
two
daughters.
He
must
have
been
upwards
of
sixty
at
the
time
of
the
first
visit
I
paid
to
Cranford
after
I
had
left
it
as
a
residence.
But
he
had
a
wiry,
well-trained,
elastic
figure,
a
stiff
military
throw-back
of
his
head,
and
a
springing
step,
which
made
him
appear
much
younger
than
he
was.
His
eldest
daughter
looked
almost
as
old
as
himself,
and
betrayed
the
fact
that
his
real
was
more
than
his
apparent
age.
Miss
Brown
must
have
been
forty;
she
had
a
sickly,
pained,
careworn
expression
on
her
face,
and
looked
as
if
the
gaiety
of
youth
had
long
faded
out
of
sight.
Even
when
young
she
must
have
been
plain
and
hard-featured.
Miss
Jessie
Brown
was
ten
years
younger
than
her
sister,
and
twenty
shades
prettier.
Her
face
was
round
and
dimpled.
Miss
Jenkyns
once
said,
in
a
passion
against
Captain
Brown
(the
cause
of
which
I
will
tell
you
presently),
“that
she
thought
it
was
time
for
Miss
Jessie
to
leave
off
her
dimples,
and
not
always
to
be
trying
to
look
like
a
child.”
It
was
true
there
was
something
childlike
in
her
face;
and
there
will
be,
I
think,
till
she
dies,
though
she
should
live
to
a
hundred.
Her
eyes
were
large
blue
wondering
eyes,
looking
straight
at
you;
her
nose
was
unformed
and
snub,
and
her
lips
were
red
and
dewy;
she
wore
her
hair,
too,
in
little
rows
of
curls,
which
heightened
this
appearance.
I
do
not
know
whether
she
was
pretty
or
not;
but
I
liked
her
face,
and
so
did
everybody,
and
I
do
not
think
she
could
help
her
dimples.
She
had
something
of
her
father’s
jauntiness
of
gait
and
manner;
and
any
female
observer
might
detect
a
slight
difference
in
the
attire
of
the
two
sisters—
that
of
Miss
Jessie
being
about
two
pounds
per
annum
more
expensive
than
Miss
Brown’s.
Two
pounds
was
a
large
sum
in
Captain
Brown’s
annual
disbursements.
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