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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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CHAPTER
XIII.
STOPPED
PAYMENT
THE
very
Tuesday
morning
on
which
Mr
Johnson
was
going
to
show
the
fashions,
the
post-woman
brought
two
letters
to
the
house.
I
say
the
post-woman,
but
I
should
say
the
postman’s
wife.
He
was
a
lame
shoemaker,
a
very
clean,
honest
man,
much
respected
in
the
town;
but
he
never
brought
the
letters
round
except
on
unusual
occasions,
such
as
Christmas
Day
or
Good
Friday;
and
on
those
days
the
letters,
which
should
have
been
delivered
at
eight
in
the
morning,
did
not
make
their
appearance
until
two
or
three
in
the
afternoon,
for
every
one
liked
poor
Thomas,
and
gave
him
a
welcome
on
these
festive
occasions.
He
used
to
say,
“He
was
welly
stawed
wi’
eating,
for
there
were
three
or
four
houses
where
nowt
would
serve
’em
but
he
must
share
in
their
breakfast;”
and
by
the
time
he
had
done
his
last
breakfast,
he
came
to
some
other
friend
who
was
beginning
dinner;
but
come
what
might
in
the
way
of
temptation,
Tom
was
always
sober,
civil,
and
smiling;
and,
as
Miss
Jenkyns
used
to
say,
it
was
a
lesson
in
patience,
that
she
doubted
not
would
call
out
that
precious
quality
in
some
minds,
where,
but
for
Thomas,
it
might
have
lain
dormant
and
undiscovered.
Patience
was
certainly
very
dormant
in
Miss
Jenkyns’s
mind.
She
was
always
expecting
letters,
and
always
drumming
on
the
table
till
the
post-woman
had
called
or
gone
past.
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