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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The
only
fact
I
gained
from
this
conversation
was
that
certainly
Peter
had
last
been
heard
of
in
India,
“or
that
neighbourhood”;
and
that
this
scanty
intelligence
of
his
whereabouts
had
reached
Cranford
in
the
year
when
Miss
Pole
had
bought
her
Indian
muslin
gown,
long
since
worn
out
(we
washed
it
and
mended
it,
and
traced
its
decline
and
fall
into
a
window-blind
before
we
could
go
on);
and
in
a
year
when
Wombwell
came
to
Cranford,
because
Miss
Matty
had
wanted
to
see
an
elephant
in
order
that
she
might
the
better
imagine
Peter
riding
on
one;
and
had
seen
a
boa-constrictor
too,
which
was
more
than
she
wished
to
imagine
in
her
fancy-pictures
of
Peter’s
locality;
and
in
a
year
when
Miss
Jenkyns
had
learnt
some
piece
of
poetry
off
by
heart,
and
used
to
say,
at
all
the
Cranford
parties,
how
Peter
was
“surveying
mankind
from
China
to
Peru,”
which
everybody
had
thought
very
grand,
and
rather
appropriate,
because
India
was
between
China
and
Peru,
if
you
took
care
to
turn
the
globe
to
the
left
instead
of
the
right.
I
suppose
all
these
inquiries
of
mine,
and
the
consequent
curiosity
excited
in
the
minds
of
my
friends,
made
us
blind
and
deaf
to
what
was
going
on
around
us.
It
seemed
to
me
as
if
the
sun
rose
and
shone,
and
as
if
the
rain
rained
on
Cranford,
just
as
usual,
and
I
did
not
notice
any
sign
of
the
times
that
could
be
considered
as
a
prognostic
of
any
uncommon
event;
and,
to
the
best
of
my
belief,
not
only
Miss
Matty
and
Mrs
Forrester,
but
even
Miss
Pole
herself,
whom
we
looked
upon
as
a
kind
of
prophetess,
from
the
knack
she
had
of
foreseeing
things
before
they
came
to
pass—
although
she
did
not
like
to
disturb
her
friends
by
telling
them
her
foreknowledge—
even
Miss
Pole
herself
was
breathless
with
astonishment
when
she
came
to
tell
us
of
the
astounding
piece
of
news.
But
I
must
recover
myself;
the
contemplation
of
it,
even
at
this
distance
of
time,
has
taken
away
my
breath
and
my
grammar,
and
unless
I
subdue
my
emotion,
my
spelling
will
go
too.
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