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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Miss
Pole
and
Miss
Matty
wrote
to
me
by
the
same
post.
Such
a
piece
of
news
as
Lord
Mauleverer’s
visit
was
not
to
be
lost
on
the
Cranford
letter-writers:
they
made
the
most
of
it.
Miss
Matty
humbly
apologised
for
writing
at
the
same
time
as
her
sister,
who
was
so
much
more
capable
than
she
to
describe
the
honour
done
to
Cranford;
but
in
spite
of
a
little
bad
spelling,
Miss
Matty’s
account
gave
me
the
best
idea
of
the
commotion
occasioned
by
his
lordship’s
visit,
after
it
had
occurred;
for,
except
the
people
at
the
Angel,
the
Browns,
Mrs
Jamieson,
and
a
little
lad
his
lordship
had
sworn
at
for
driving
a
dirty
hoop
against
the
aristocratic
legs,
I
could
not
hear
of
any
one
with
whom
his
lordship
had
held
conversation.
My
next
visit
to
Cranford
was
in
the
summer.
There
had
been
neither
births,
deaths,
nor
marriages
since
I
was
there
last.
Everybody
lived
in
the
same
house,
and
wore
pretty
nearly
the
same
well-preserved,
old-fashioned
clothes.
The
greatest
event
was,
that
Miss
Jenkyns
had
purchased
a
new
carpet
for
the
drawing-room.
Oh,
the
busy
work
Miss
Matty
and
I
had
in
chasing
the
sunbeams,
as
they
fell
in
an
afternoon
right
down
on
this
carpet
through
the
blindless
window!
We
spread
newspapers
over
the
places
and
sat
down
to
our
book
or
our
work;
and,
lo!
in
a
quarter
of
an
hour
the
sun
had
moved,
and
was
blazing
away
on
a
fresh
spot;
and
down
again
we
went
on
our
knees
to
alter
the
position
of
the
newspapers.
We
were
very
busy,
too,
one
whole
morning,
before
Miss
Jenkyns
gave
her
party,
in
following
her
directions,
and
in
cutting
out
and
stitching
together
pieces
of
newspaper
so
as
to
form
little
paths
to
every
chair
set
for
the
expected
visitors,
lest
their
shoes
might
dirty
or
defile
the
purity
of
the
carpet.
Do
you
make
paper
paths
for
every
guest
to
walk
upon
in
London?
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