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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“I
don’t
mind,
among
friends,
stating
that
I—
no!
I’m
not
poor
exactly,
but
I
don’t
think
I’m
what
you
may
call
rich;
I
wish
I
were,
for
dear
Miss
Matty’s
sake—
but,
if
you
please,
I’ll
write
down
in
a
sealed
paper
what
I
can
give.
I
only
wish
it
was
more;
my
dear
Mary,
I
do
indeed.”
Now
I
saw
why
paper,
pens,
and
ink
were
provided.
Every
lady
wrote
down
the
sum
she
could
give
annually,
signed
the
paper,
and
sealed
it
mysteriously.
If
their
proposal
was
acceded
to,
my
father
was
to
be
allowed
to
open
the
papers,
under
pledge
of
secrecy.
If
not,
they
were
to
be
returned
to
their
writers.
When
the
ceremony
had
been
gone
through,
I
rose
to
depart;
but
each
lady
seemed
to
wish
to
have
a
private
conference
with
me.
Miss
Pole
kept
me
in
the
drawing-room
to
explain
why,
in
Mrs
Jamieson’s
absence,
she
had
taken
the
lead
in
this
“movement,”
as
she
was
pleased
to
call
it,
and
also
to
inform
me
that
she
had
heard
from
good
sources
that
Mrs
Jamieson
was
coming
home
directly
in
a
state
of
high
displeasure
against
her
sister-in-law,
who
was
forthwith
to
leave
her
house,
and
was,
she
believed,
to
return
to
Edinburgh
that
very
afternoon.
Of
course
this
piece
of
intelligence
could
not
be
communicated
before
Mrs
Fitz-Adam,
more
especially
as
Miss
Pole
was
inclined
to
think
that
Lady
Glenmire’s
engagement
to
Mr
Hoggins
could
not
possibly
hold
against
the
blaze
of
Mrs
Jamieson’s
displeasure.
A
few
hearty
inquiries
after
Miss
Matty’s
health
concluded
my
interview
with
Miss
Pole.
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