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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Old
hoards
were
taken
out
and
examined
as
to
their
money
value
which
luckily
was
small,
or
else
I
don’t
know
how
Miss
Matty
would
have
prevailed
upon
herself
to
part
with
such
things
as
her
mother’s
wedding-ring,
the
strange,
uncouth
brooch
with
which
her
father
had
disfigured
his
shirt-frill,
&c.
However,
we
arranged
things
a
little
in
order
as
to
their
pecuniary
estimation,
and
were
all
ready
for
my
father
when
he
came
the
next
morning.
I
am
not
going
to
weary
you
with
the
details
of
all
the
business
we
went
through;
and
one
reason
for
not
telling
about
them
is,
that
I
did
not
understand
what
we
were
doing
at
the
time,
and
cannot
recollect
it
now.
Miss
Matty
and
I
sat
assenting
to
accounts,
and
schemes,
and
reports,
and
documents,
of
which
I
do
not
believe
we
either
of
us
understood
a
word;
for
my
father
was
clear-headed
and
decisive,
and
a
capital
man
of
business,
and
if
we
made
the
slightest
inquiry,
or
expressed
the
slightest
want
of
comprehension,
he
had
a
sharp
way
of
saying,
“Eh?
eh?
it’s
as
clear
as
daylight.
What’s
your
objection?”
And
as
we
had
not
comprehended
anything
of
what
he
had
proposed,
we
found
it
rather
difficult
to
shape
our
objections;
in
fact,
we
never
were
sure
if
we
had
any.
So
presently
Miss
Matty
got
into
a
nervously
acquiescent
state,
and
said
“Yes,”
and
“Certainly,”
at
every
pause,
whether
required
or
not;
but
when
I
once
joined
in
as
chorus
to
a
“Decidedly,”
pronounced
by
Miss
Matty
in
a
tremblingly
dubious
tone,
my
father
fired
round
at
me
and
asked
me
“What
there
was
to
decide?”
And
I
am
sure
to
this
day
I
have
never
known.
But,
in
justice
to
him,
I
must
say
he
had
come
over
from
Drumble
to
help
Miss
Matty
when
he
could
ill
spare
the
time,
and
when
his
own
affairs
were
in
a
very
anxious
state.
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