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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“Marry!”
said
Miss
Matty
once
again.
“Well!
I
never
thought
of
it.
Two
people
that
we
know
going
to
be
married.
It’s
coming
very
near!”
“So
near
that
my
heart
stopped
beating
when
I
heard
of
it,
while
you
might
have
counted
twelve,”
said
Miss
Pole.
“One
does
not
know
whose
turn
may
come
next.
Here,
in
Cranford,
poor
Lady
Glenmire
might
have
thought
herself
safe,”
said
Miss
Matty,
with
a
gentle
pity
in
her
tones.
“Bah!”
said
Miss
Pole,
with
a
toss
of
her
head.
“Don’t
you
remember
poor
dear
Captain
Brown’s
song
‘Tibbie
Fowler,’
and
the
line—
‘Set
her
on
the
Tintock
tap,
The
wind
will
blaw
a
man
till
her.’”
“That
was
because
‘Tibbie
Fowler’
was
rich,
I
think.”
“Well!
there
was
a
kind
of
attraction
about
Lady
Glenmire
that
I,
for
one,
should
be
ashamed
to
have.”
I
put
in
my
wonder.
“But
how
can
she
have
fancied
Mr
Hoggins?
I
am
not
surprised
that
Mr
Hoggins
has
liked
her.”
“Oh!
I
don’t
know.
Mr
Hoggins
is
rich,
and
very
pleasant-looking,”
said
Miss
Matty,
“and
very
good-tempered
and
kind-hearted.”
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