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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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After
tea
we
thawed
down
into
common-life
subjects.
We
were
thankful
to
Lady
Glenmire
for
having
proposed
some
more
bread
and
butter,
and
this
mutual
want
made
us
better
acquainted
with
her
than
we
should
ever
have
been
with
talking
about
the
Court,
though
Miss
Pole
did
say
she
had
hoped
to
know
how
the
dear
Queen
was
from
some
one
who
had
seen
her.
The
friendship
begun
over
bread
and
butter
extended
on
to
cards.
Lady
Glenmire
played
Preference
to
admiration,
and
was
a
complete
authority
as
to
Ombre
and
Quadrille.
Even
Miss
Pole
quite
forgot
to
say
“my
lady,”
and
“your
ladyship,”
and
said
“Basto!
ma’am”;
“you
have
Spadille,
I
believe,”
just
as
quietly
as
if
we
had
never
held
the
great
Cranford
Parliament
on
the
subject
of
the
proper
mode
of
addressing
a
peeress.
As
a
proof
of
how
thoroughly
we
had
forgotten
that
we
were
in
the
presence
of
one
who
might
have
sat
down
to
tea
with
a
coronet,
instead
of
a
cap,
on
her
head,
Mrs
Forrester
related
a
curious
little
fact
to
Lady
Glenmire—
an
anecdote
known
to
the
circle
of
her
intimate
friends,
but
of
which
even
Mrs
Jamieson
was
not
aware.
It
related
to
some
fine
old
lace,
the
sole
relic
of
better
days,
which
Lady
Glenmire
was
admiring
on
Mrs
Forrester’s
collar.
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