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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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In
the
afternoon
Miss
Pole
called
on
Miss
Matty
to
tell
her
of
the
adventure—
the
real
adventure
they
had
met
with
on
their
morning’s
walk.
They
had
been
perplexed
about
the
exact
path
which
they
were
to
take
across
the
fields
in
order
to
find
the
knitting
old
woman,
and
had
stopped
to
inquire
at
a
little
wayside
public-house,
standing
on
the
high
road
to
London,
about
three
miles
from
Cranford.
The
good
woman
had
asked
them
to
sit
down
and
rest
themselves
while
she
fetched
her
husband,
who
could
direct
them
better
than
she
could;
and,
while
they
were
sitting
in
the
sanded
parlour,
a
little
girl
came
in.
They
thought
that
she
belonged
to
the
landlady,
and
began
some
trifling
conversation
with
her;
but,
on
Mrs
Roberts’s
return,
she
told
them
that
the
little
thing
was
the
only
child
of
a
couple
who
were
staying
in
the
house.
And
then
she
began
a
long
story,
out
of
which
Lady
Glenmire
and
Miss
Pole
could
only
gather
one
or
two
decided
facts,
which
were
that,
about
six
weeks
ago,
a
light
spring-cart
had
broken
down
just
before
their
door,
in
which
there
were
two
men,
one
woman,
and
this
child.
One
of
the
men
was
seriously
hurt—
no
bones
broken,
only
“shaken,”
the
landlady
called
it;
but
he
had
probably
sustained
some
severe
internal
injury,
for
he
had
languished
in
their
house
ever
since,
attended
by
his
wife,
the
mother
of
this
little
girl.
Miss
Pole
had
asked
what
he
was,
what
he
looked
like.
And
Mrs
Roberts
had
made
answer
that
he
was
not
like
a
gentleman,
nor
yet
like
a
common
person;
if
it
had
not
been
that
he
and
his
wife
were
such
decent,
quiet
people,
she
could
almost
have
thought
he
was
a
mountebank,
or
something
of
that
kind,
for
they
had
a
great
box
in
the
cart,
full
of
she
did
not
know
what.
She
had
helped
to
unpack
it,
and
take
out
their
linen
and
clothes,
when
the
other
man—
his
twin-brother,
she
believed
he
was—
had
gone
off
with
the
horse
and
cart.
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