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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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But
to
return
to
Miss
Matty.
It
was
really
very
pleasant
to
see
how
her
unselfishness
and
simple
sense
of
justice
called
out
the
same
good
qualities
in
others.
She
never
seemed
to
think
any
one
would
impose
upon
her,
because
she
should
be
so
grieved
to
do
it
to
them.
I
have
heard
her
put
a
stop
to
the
asseverations
of
the
man
who
brought
her
coals
by
quietly
saying,
“I
am
sure
you
would
be
sorry
to
bring
me
wrong
weight;”
and
if
the
coals
were
short
measure
that
time,
I
don’t
believe
they
ever
were
again.
People
would
have
felt
as
much
ashamed
of
presuming
on
her
good
faith
as
they
would
have
done
on
that
of
a
child.
But
my
father
says
“such
simplicity
might
be
very
well
in
Cranford,
but
would
never
do
in
the
world.”
And
I
fancy
the
world
must
be
very
bad,
for
with
all
my
father’s
suspicion
of
every
one
with
whom
he
has
dealings,
and
in
spite
of
all
his
many
precautions,
he
lost
upwards
of
a
thousand
pounds
by
roguery
only
last
year.
I
just
stayed
long
enough
to
establish
Miss
Matty
in
her
new
mode
of
life,
and
to
pack
up
the
library,
which
the
rector
had
purchased.
He
had
written
a
very
kind
letter
to
Miss
Matty,
saying
“how
glad
he
should
be
to
take
a
library,
so
well
selected
as
he
knew
that
the
late
Mr
Jenkyns’s
must
have
been,
at
any
valuation
put
upon
them.”
And
when
she
agreed
to
this,
with
a
touch
of
sorrowful
gladness
that
they
would
go
back
to
the
rectory
and
be
arranged
on
the
accustomed
walls
once
more,
he
sent
word
that
he
feared
that
he
had
not
room
for
them
all,
and
perhaps
Miss
Matty
would
kindly
allow
him
to
leave
some
volumes
on
her
shelves.
But
Miss
Matty
said
that
she
had
her
Bible
and
“Johnson’s
Dictionary,”
and
should
not
have
much
time
for
reading,
she
was
afraid;
still,
I
retained
a
few
books
out
of
consideration
for
the
rector’s
kindness.
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