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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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We
began
to
talk
of
Miss
Matty’s
new
silk
gown.
I
discovered
that
it
would
be
really
the
first
time
in
her
life
that
she
had
had
to
choose
anything
of
consequence
for
herself:
for
Miss
Jenkyns
had
always
been
the
more
decided
character,
whatever
her
taste
might
have
been;
and
it
is
astonishing
how
such
people
carry
the
world
before
them
by
the
mere
force
of
will.
Miss
Matty
anticipated
the
sight
of
the
glossy
folds
with
as
much
delight
as
if
the
five
sovereigns,
set
apart
for
the
purchase,
could
buy
all
the
silks
in
the
shop;
and
(remembering
my
own
loss
of
two
hours
in
a
toyshop
before
I
could
tell
on
what
wonder
to
spend
a
silver
threepence)
I
was
very
glad
that
we
were
going
early,
that
dear
Miss
Matty
might
have
leisure
for
the
delights
of
perplexity.
If
a
happy
sea-green
could
be
met
with,
the
gown
was
to
be
sea-green:
if
not,
she
inclined
to
maize,
and
I
to
silver
gray;
and
we
discussed
the
requisite
number
of
breadths
until
we
arrived
at
the
shop-door.
We
were
to
buy
the
tea,
select
the
silk,
and
then
clamber
up
the
iron
corkscrew
stairs
that
led
into
what
was
once
a
loft,
though
now
a
fashion
show-room.
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