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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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But
she
was
patient
and
content
with
all
our
arrangements.
She
knew,
she
said,
that
we
should
do
the
best
we
could
for
her;
and
she
only
hoped,
only
stipulated,
that
she
should
pay
every
farthing
that
she
could
be
said
to
owe,
for
her
father’s
sake,
who
had
been
so
respected
in
Cranford.
My
father
and
I
had
agreed
to
say
as
little
as
possible
about
the
bank,
indeed
never
to
mention
it
again,
if
it
could
be
helped.
Some
of
the
plans
were
evidently
a
little
perplexing
to
her;
but
she
had
seen
me
sufficiently
snubbed
in
the
morning
for
want
of
comprehension
to
venture
on
too
many
inquiries
now;
and
all
passed
over
well
with
a
hope
on
her
part
that
no
one
would
be
hurried
into
marriage
on
her
account.
When
we
came
to
the
proposal
that
she
should
sell
tea,
I
could
see
it
was
rather
a
shock
to
her;
not
on
account
of
any
personal
loss
of
gentility
involved,
but
only
because
she
distrusted
her
own
powers
of
action
in
a
new
line
of
life,
and
would
timidly
have
preferred
a
little
more
privation
to
any
exertion
for
which
she
feared
she
was
unfitted.
However,
when
she
saw
my
father
was
bent
upon
it,
she
sighed,
and
said
she
would
try;
and
if
she
did
not
do
well,
of
course
she
might
give
it
up.
One
good
thing
about
it
was,
she
did
not
think
men
ever
bought
tea;
and
it
was
of
men
particularly
she
was
afraid.
They
had
such
sharp
loud
ways
with
them;
and
did
up
accounts,
and
counted
their
change
so
quickly!
Now,
if
she
might
only
sell
comfits
to
children,
she
was
sure
she
could
please
them!
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