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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Mrs
Jamieson’s
drawing-room
was
cheerful;
the
evening
sun
came
streaming
into
it,
and
the
large
square
window
was
clustered
round
with
flowers.
The
furniture
was
white
and
gold;
not
the
later
style,
Louis
Quatorze,
I
think
they
call
it,
all
shells
and
twirls;
no,
Mrs
Jamieson’s
chairs
and
tables
had
not
a
curve
or
bend
about
them.
The
chair
and
table
legs
diminished
as
they
neared
the
ground,
and
were
straight
and
square
in
all
their
corners.
The
chairs
were
all
a-row
against
the
walls,
with
the
exception
of
four
or
five
which
stood
in
a
circle
round
the
fire.
They
were
railed
with
white
bars
across
the
back
and
knobbed
with
gold;
neither
the
railings
nor
the
knobs
invited
to
ease.
There
was
a
japanned
table
devoted
to
literature,
on
which
lay
a
Bible,
a
Peerage,
and
a
Prayer-Book.
There
was
another
square
Pembroke
table
dedicated
to
the
Fine
Arts,
on
which
were
a
kaleidoscope,
conversation-cards,
puzzle-cards
(tied
together
to
an
interminable
length
with
faded
pink
satin
ribbon),
and
a
box
painted
in
fond
imitation
of
the
drawings
which
decorate
tea-chests.
Carlo
lay
on
the
worsted-worked
rug,
and
ungraciously
barked
at
us
as
we
entered.
Mrs
Jamieson
stood
up,
giving
us
each
a
torpid
smile
of
welcome,
and
looking
helplessly
beyond
us
at
Mr
Mulliner,
as
if
she
hoped
he
would
place
us
in
chairs,
for,
if
he
did
not,
she
never
could.
I
suppose
he
thought
we
could
find
our
way
to
the
circle
round
the
fire,
which
reminded
me
of
Stonehenge,
I
don’t
know
why.
Lady
Glenmire
came
to
the
rescue
of
our
hostess,
and,
somehow
or
other,
we
found
ourselves
for
the
first
time
placed
agreeably,
and
not
formally,
in
Mrs
Jamieson’s
house.
Lady
Glenmire,
now
we
had
time
to
look
at
her,
proved
to
be
a
bright
little
woman
of
middle
age,
who
had
been
very
pretty
in
the
days
of
her
youth,
and
who
was
even
yet
very
pleasant-looking.
I
saw
Miss
Pole
appraising
her
dress
in
the
first
five
minutes,
and
I
take
her
word
when
she
said
the
next
day—
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