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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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CHAPTER
VIII.
“YOUR
LADYSHIP”
EARLY
the
next
morning—
directly
after
twelve—
Miss
Pole
made
her
appearance
at
Miss
Matty’s.
Some
very
trifling
piece
of
business
was
alleged
as
a
reason
for
the
call;
but
there
was
evidently
something
behind.
At
last
out
it
came.
“By
the
way,
you’ll
think
I’m
strangely
ignorant;
but,
do
you
really
know,
I
am
puzzled
how
we
ought
to
address
Lady
Glenmire.
Do
you
say,
‘Your
Ladyship,’
where
you
would
say
‘you’
to
a
common
person?
I
have
been
puzzling
all
morning;
and
are
we
to
say
‘My
Lady,’
instead
of
‘Ma’am?’
Now
you
knew
Lady
Arley—
will
you
kindly
tell
me
the
most
correct
way
of
speaking
to
the
peerage?”
Poor
Miss
Matty!
she
took
off
her
spectacles
and
she
put
them
on
again—
but
how
Lady
Arley
was
addressed,
she
could
not
remember.
“It
is
so
long
ago,”
she
said.
“Dear!
dear!
how
stupid
I
am!
I
don’t
think
I
ever
saw
her
more
than
twice.
I
know
we
used
to
call
Sir
Peter,
‘Sir
Peter’—
but
he
came
much
oftener
to
see
us
than
Lady
Arley
did.
Deborah
would
have
known
in
a
minute.
‘My
lady’—
‘your
ladyship.’
It
sounds
very
strange,
and
as
if
it
was
not
natural.
I
never
thought
of
it
before;
but,
now
you
have
named
it,
I
am
all
in
a
puzzle.”
It
was
very
certain
Miss
Pole
would
obtain
no
wise
decision
from
Miss
Matty,
who
got
more
bewildered
every
moment,
and
more
perplexed
as
to
etiquettes
of
address.
“Well,
I
really
think,”
said
Miss
Pole,
“I
had
better
just
go
and
tell
Mrs
Forrester
about
our
little
difficulty.
One
sometimes
grows
nervous;
and
yet
one
would
not
have
Lady
Glenmire
think
we
were
quite
ignorant
of
the
etiquettes
of
high
life
in
Cranford.”
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