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Cranford
·
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The
young
men
at
Mr
Johnson’s
had
on
their
best
looks;
and
their
best
cravats,
and
pivoted
themselves
over
the
counter
with
surprising
activity.
They
wanted
to
show
us
upstairs
at
once;
but
on
the
principle
of
business
first
and
pleasure
afterwards,
we
stayed
to
purchase
the
tea.
Here
Miss
Matty’s
absence
of
mind
betrayed
itself.
If
she
was
made
aware
that
she
had
been
drinking
green
tea
at
any
time,
she
always
thought
it
her
duty
to
lie
awake
half
through
the
night
afterward
(I
have
known
her
take
it
in
ignorance
many
a
time
without
such
effects),
and
consequently
green
tea
was
prohibited
the
house;
yet
to-day
she
herself
asked
for
the
obnoxious
article,
under
the
impression
that
she
was
talking
about
the
silk.
However,
the
mistake
was
soon
rectified;
and
then
the
silks
were
unrolled
in
good
truth.
By
this
time
the
shop
was
pretty
well
filled,
for
it
was
Cranford
market-day,
and
many
of
the
farmers
and
country
people
from
the
neighbourhood
round
came
in,
sleeking
down
their
hair,
and
glancing
shyly
about,
from
under
their
eyelids,
as
anxious
to
take
back
some
notion
of
the
unusual
gaiety
to
the
mistress
or
the
lasses
at
home,
and
yet
feeling
that
they
were
out
of
place
among
the
smart
shopmen
and
gay
shawls
and
summer
prints.
One
honest-looking
man,
however,
made
his
way
up
to
the
counter
at
which
we
stood,
and
boldly
asked
to
look
at
a
shawl
or
two.
The
other
country
folk
confined
themselves
to
the
grocery
side;
but
our
neighbour
was
evidently
too
full
of
some
kind
intention
towards
mistress,
wife
or
daughter,
to
be
shy;
and
it
soon
became
a
question
with
me,
whether
he
or
Miss
Matty
would
keep
their
shopmen
the
longest
time.
He
thought
each
shawl
more
beautiful
than
the
last;
and,
as
for
Miss
Matty,
she
smiled
and
sighed
over
each
fresh
bale
that
was
brought
out;
one
colour
set
off
another,
and
the
heap
together
would,
as
she
said,
make
even
the
rainbow
look
poor.
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