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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Mrs
Forrester’s
start
was
made
on
the
veiled
prophet
in
Lalla
Rookh—
whether
I
thought
he
was
meant
for
the
Great
Lama,
though
Peter
was
not
so
ugly,
indeed
rather
handsome,
if
he
had
not
been
freckled.
I
was
thankful
to
see
her
double
upon
Peter;
but,
in
a
moment,
the
delusive
lady
was
off
upon
Rowland’s
Kalydor,
and
the
merits
of
cosmetics
and
hair
oils
in
general,
and
holding
forth
so
fluently
that
I
turned
to
listen
to
Miss
Pole,
who
(through
the
llamas,
the
beasts
of
burden)
had
got
to
Peruvian
bonds,
and
the
share
market,
and
her
poor
opinion
of
joint-stock
banks
in
general,
and
of
that
one
in
particular
in
which
Miss
Matty’s
money
was
invested.
In
vain
I
put
in
“When
was
it—
in
what
year
was
it
that
you
heard
that
Mr
Peter
was
the
Great
Lama?”
They
only
joined
issue
to
dispute
whether
llamas
were
carnivorous
animals
or
not;
in
which
dispute
they
were
not
quite
on
fair
grounds,
as
Mrs
Forrester
(after
they
had
grown
warm
and
cool
again)
acknowledged
that
she
always
confused
carnivorous
and
graminivorous
together,
just
as
she
did
horizontal
and
perpendicular;
but
then
she
apologised
for
it
very
prettily,
by
saying
that
in
her
day
the
only
use
people
made
of
four-syllabled
words
was
to
teach
how
they
should
be
spelt.
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