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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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[Picture:
Would
stretch
out
their
little
arms]
If
I
had
been
inclined
to
be
daunted
from
matrimony,
it
would
not
have
been
Miss
Pole
to
do
it;
it
would
have
been
the
lot
of
poor
Signor
Brunoni
and
his
wife.
And
yet
again,
it
was
an
encouragement
to
see
how,
through
all
their
cares
and
sorrows,
they
thought
of
each
other
and
not
of
themselves;
and
how
keen
were
their
joys,
if
they
only
passed
through
each
other,
or
through
the
little
Phœbe.
The
signora
told
me,
one
day,
a
good
deal
about
their
lives
up
to
this
period.
It
began
by
my
asking
her
whether
Miss
Pole’s
story
of
the
twin-brothers
were
true;
it
sounded
so
wonderful
a
likeness,
that
I
should
have
had
my
doubts,
if
Miss
Pole
had
not
been
unmarried.
But
the
signora,
or
(as
we
found
out
she
preferred
to
be
called)
Mrs
Brown,
said
it
was
quite
true;
that
her
brother-in-law
was
by
many
taken
for
her
husband,
which
was
of
great
assistance
to
them
in
their
profession;
“though,”
she
continued,
“how
people
can
mistake
Thomas
for
the
real
Signor
Brunoni,
I
can’t
conceive;
but
he
says
they
do;
so
I
suppose
I
must
believe
him.
Not
but
what
he
is
a
very
good
man;
I
am
sure
I
don’t
know
how
we
should
have
paid
our
bill
at
the
‘Rising
Sun’
but
for
the
money
he
sends;
but
people
must
know
very
little
about
art
if
they
can
take
him
for
my
husband.
Why,
Miss,
in
the
ball
trick,
where
my
husband
spreads
his
fingers
wide,
and
throws
out
his
little
finger
with
quite
an
air
and
a
grace,
Thomas
just
clumps
up
his
hand
like
a
fist,
and
might
have
ever
so
many
balls
hidden
in
it.
Besides,
he
has
never
been
in
India,
and
knows
nothing
of
the
proper
sit
of
a
turban.”
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