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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Miss
Pole
had
begun
to
have
her
suspicions
at
this
point,
and
expressed
her
idea
that
it
was
rather
strange
that
the
box
and
cart
and
horse
and
all
should
have
disappeared;
but
good
Mrs
Roberts
seemed
to
have
become
quite
indignant
at
Miss
Pole’s
implied
suggestion;
in
fact,
Miss
Pole
said
she
was
as
angry
as
if
Miss
Pole
had
told
her
that
she
herself
was
a
swindler.
As
the
best
way
of
convincing
the
ladies,
she
bethought
her
of
begging
them
to
see
the
wife;
and,
as
Miss
Pole
said,
there
was
no
doubting
the
honest,
worn,
bronzed
face
of
the
woman,
who
at
the
first
tender
word
from
Lady
Glenmire,
burst
into
tears,
which
she
was
too
weak
to
check
until
some
word
from
the
landlady
made
her
swallow
down
her
sobs,
in
order
that
she
might
testify
to
the
Christian
kindness
shown
by
Mr
and
Mrs
Roberts.
Miss
Pole
came
round
with
a
swing
to
as
vehement
a
belief
in
the
sorrowful
tale
as
she
had
been
sceptical
before;
and,
as
a
proof
of
this,
her
energy
in
the
poor
sufferer’s
behalf
was
nothing
daunted
when
she
found
out
that
he,
and
no
other,
was
our
Signor
Brunoni,
to
whom
all
Cranford
had
been
attributing
all
manner
of
evil
this
six
weeks
past!
Yes!
his
wife
said
his
proper
name
was
Samuel
Brown—
“Sam,”
she
called
him—
but
to
the
last
we
preferred
calling
him
“the
Signor”;
it
sounded
so
much
better.
The
end
of
their
conversation
with
the
Signora
Brunoni
was
that
it
was
agreed
that
he
should
be
placed
under
medical
advice,
and
for
any
expense
incurred
in
procuring
this
Lady
Glenmire
promised
to
hold
herself
responsible,
and
had
accordingly
gone
to
Mr
Hoggins
to
beg
him
to
ride
over
to
the
“Rising
Sun”
that
very
afternoon,
and
examine
into
the
signor’s
real
state;
and,
as
Miss
Pole
said,
if
it
was
desirable
to
remove
him
to
Cranford
to
be
more
immediately
under
Mr
Hoggins’s
eye,
she
would
undertake
to
see
for
lodgings
and
arrange
about
the
rent.
Mrs
Roberts
had
been
as
kind
as
could
be
all
throughout,
but
it
was
evident
that
their
long
residence
there
had
been
a
slight
inconvenience.
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