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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“Ah!
I
see;
I
comprehend
perfectly.
A
represents
the
ball.
Put
A
between
B
and
D—
no!
between
C
and
F,
and
turn
the
second
joint
of
the
third
finger
of
your
left
hand
over
the
wrist
of
your
right
H.
Very
clear
indeed!
My
dear
Mrs
Forrester,
conjuring
and
witchcraft
is
a
mere
affair
of
the
alphabet.
Do
let
me
read
you
this
one
passage?”
Mrs
Forrester
implored
Miss
Pole
to
spare
her,
saying,
from
a
child
upwards,
she
never
could
understand
being
read
aloud
to;
and
I
dropped
the
pack
of
cards,
which
I
had
been
shuffling
very
audibly,
and
by
this
discreet
movement
I
obliged
Miss
Pole
to
perceive
that
Preference
was
to
have
been
the
order
of
the
evening,
and
to
propose,
rather
unwillingly,
that
the
pool
should
commence.
The
pleasant
brightness
that
stole
over
the
other
two
ladies’
faces
on
this!
Miss
Matty
had
one
or
two
twinges
of
self-reproach
for
having
interrupted
Miss
Pole
in
her
studies:
and
did
not
remember
her
cards
well,
or
give
her
full
attention
to
the
game,
until
she
had
soothed
her
conscience
by
offering
to
lend
the
volume
of
the
Encyclopædia
to
Miss
Pole,
who
accepted
it
thankfully,
and
said
Betty
should
take
it
home
when
she
came
with
the
lantern.
The
next
evening
we
were
all
in
a
little
gentle
flutter
at
the
idea
of
the
gaiety
before
us.
Miss
Matty
went
up
to
dress
betimes,
and
hurried
me
until
I
was
ready,
when
we
found
we
had
an
hour-and-a-half
to
wait
before
the
“doors
opened
at
seven
precisely.”
And
we
had
only
twenty
yards
to
go!
However,
as
Miss
Matty
said,
it
would
not
do
to
get
too
much
absorbed
in
anything,
and
forget
the
time;
so
she
thought
we
had
better
sit
quietly,
without
lighting
the
candles,
till
five
minutes
to
seven.
So
Miss
Matty
dozed,
and
I
knitted.
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