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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Now
we
were
astonished.
How
he
did
his
tricks
I
could
not
imagine;
no,
not
even
when
Miss
Pole
pulled
out
her
pieces
of
paper
and
began
reading
aloud—
or
at
least
in
a
very
audible
whisper—
the
separate
“receipts”
for
the
most
common
of
his
tricks.
If
ever
I
saw
a
man
frown
and
look
enraged,
I
saw
the
Grand
Turk
frown
at
Miss
Pole;
but,
as
she
said,
what
could
be
expected
but
unchristian
looks
from
a
Mussulman?
If
Miss
Pole
were
sceptical,
and
more
engrossed
with
her
receipts
and
diagrams
than
with
his
tricks,
Miss
Matty
and
Mrs
Forrester
were
mystified
and
perplexed
to
the
highest
degree.
Mrs
Jamieson
kept
taking
her
spectacles
off
and
wiping
them,
as
if
she
thought
it
was
something
defective
in
them
which
made
the
legerdemain;
and
Lady
Glenmire,
who
had
seen
many
curious
sights
in
Edinburgh,
was
very
much
struck
with
the
tricks,
and
would
not
at
all
agree
with
Miss
Pole,
who
declared
that
anybody
could
do
them
with
a
little
practice,
and
that
she
would,
herself,
undertake
to
do
all
he
did,
with
two
hours
given
to
study
the
Encyclopædia
and
make
her
third
finger
flexible.
At
last
Miss
Matty
and
Mrs
Forrester
became
perfectly
awestricken.
They
whispered
together.
I
sat
just
behind
them,
so
I
could
not
help
hearing
what
they
were
saying.
Miss
Matty
asked
Mrs
Forrester
“if
she
thought
it
was
quite
right
to
have
come
to
see
such
things?
She
could
not
help
fearing
they
were
lending
encouragement
to
something
that
was
not
quite”—
A
little
shake
of
the
head
filled
up
the
blank.
Mrs
Forrester
replied,
that
the
same
thought
had
crossed
her
mind;
she
too
was
feeling
very
uncomfortable,
it
was
so
very
strange.
She
was
quite
certain
that
it
was
her
pocket-handkerchief
which
was
in
that
loaf
just
now;
and
it
had
been
in
her
own
hand
not
five
minutes
before.
She
wondered
who
had
furnished
the
bread?
She
was
sure
it
could
not
be
Dakin,
because
he
was
the
churchwarden.
Suddenly
Miss
Matty
half-turned
towards
me—
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