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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“Well!
I
suppose
it
is
wrong
to
be
hurt
and
annoyed
so
long
about
anything;
and,
perhaps,
after
all,
she
did
not
mean
to
vex
us.
But
I
must
say,
I
could
not
have
brought
myself
to
say
the
things
Mrs
Jamieson
did
about
our
not
calling.
I
really
don’t
think
I
shall
go.”
“Oh,
come!
Miss
Matty,
you
must
go;
you
know
our
friend
Mrs
Jamieson
is
much
more
phlegmatic
than
most
people,
and
does
not
enter
into
the
little
delicacies
of
feeling
which
you
possess
in
so
remarkable
a
degree.”
“I
thought
you
possessed
them,
too,
that
day
Mrs
Jamieson
called
to
tell
us
not
to
go,”
said
Miss
Matty
innocently.
But
Miss
Pole,
in
addition
to
her
delicacies
of
feeling,
possessed
a
very
smart
cap,
which
she
was
anxious
to
show
to
an
admiring
world;
and
so
she
seemed
to
forget
all
her
angry
words
uttered
not
a
fortnight
before,
and
to
be
ready
to
act
on
what
she
called
the
great
Christian
principle
of
“Forgive
and
forget”;
and
she
lectured
dear
Miss
Matty
so
long
on
this
head
that
she
absolutely
ended
by
assuring
her
it
was
her
duty,
as
a
deceased
rector’s
daughter,
to
buy
a
new
cap
and
go
to
the
party
at
Mrs
Jamieson’s.
So
“we
were
most
happy
to
accept,”
instead
of
“regretting
that
we
were
obliged
to
decline.”
[Picture:
Mr
Mulliner]
The
expenditure
on
dress
in
Cranford
was
principally
in
that
one
article
referred
to.
If
the
heads
were
buried
in
smart
new
caps,
the
ladies
were
like
ostriches,
and
cared
not
what
became
of
their
bodies.
Old
gowns,
white
and
venerable
collars,
any
number
of
brooches,
up
and
down
and
everywhere
(some
with
dogs’
eyes
painted
in
them;
some
that
were
like
small
picture-frames
with
mausoleums
and
weeping-willows
neatly
executed
in
hair
inside;
some,
again,
with
miniatures
of
ladies
and
gentlemen
sweetly
smiling
out
of
a
nest
of
stiff
muslin),
old
brooches
for
a
permanent
ornament,
and
new
caps
to
suit
the
fashion
of
the
day—
the
ladies
of
Cranford
always
dressed
with
chaste
elegance
and
propriety,
as
Miss
Barker
once
prettily
expressed
it.
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