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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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But
after
she
had
passed,
she
turned
round
and
ran
after
me
to
ask—
oh,
so
kindly—
about
my
poor
mother,
who
lay
on
her
death-bed;
and
when
I
cried
she
took
hold
of
my
hand
to
comfort
me—
and
the
gentleman
waiting
for
her
all
the
time—
and
her
poor
heart
very
full
of
something,
I
am
sure;
and
I
thought
it
such
an
honour
to
be
spoken
to
in
that
pretty
way
by
the
rector’s
daughter,
who
visited
at
Arley
Hall.
I
have
loved
her
ever
since,
though
perhaps
I’d
no
right
to
do
it;
but
if
you
can
think
of
any
way
in
which
I
might
be
allowed
to
give
a
little
more
without
any
one
knowing
it,
I
should
be
so
much
obliged
to
you,
my
dear.
And
my
brother
would
be
delighted
to
doctor
her
for
nothing—
medicines,
leeches,
and
all.
I
know
that
he
and
her
ladyship
(my
dear,
I
little
thought
in
the
days
I
was
telling
you
of
that
I
should
ever
come
to
be
sister-in-law
to
a
ladyship!)
would
do
anything
for
her.
We
all
would.”
I
told
her
I
was
quite
sure
of
it,
and
promised
all
sorts
of
things
in
my
anxiety
to
get
home
to
Miss
Matty,
who
might
well
be
wondering
what
had
become
of
me—
absent
from
her
two
hours
without
being
able
to
account
for
it.
She
had
taken
very
little
note
of
time,
however,
as
she
had
been
occupied
in
numberless
little
arrangements
preparatory
to
the
great
step
of
giving
up
her
house.
It
was
evidently
a
relief
to
her
to
be
doing
something
in
the
way
of
retrenchment,
for,
as
she
said,
whenever
she
paused
to
think,
the
recollection
of
the
poor
fellow
with
his
bad
five-pound
note
came
over
her,
and
she
felt
quite
dishonest;
only
if
it
made
her
so
uncomfortable,
what
must
it
not
be
doing
to
the
directors
of
the
bank,
who
must
know
so
much
more
of
the
misery
consequent
upon
this
failure?
She
almost
made
me
angry
by
dividing
her
sympathy
between
these
directors
(whom
she
imagined
overwhelmed
by
self-reproach
for
the
mismanagement
of
other
people’s
affairs)
and
those
who
were
suffering
like
her.
Indeed,
of
the
two,
she
seemed
to
think
poverty
a
lighter
burden
than
self-reproach;
but
I
privately
doubted
if
the
directors
would
agree
with
her.
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