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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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The
money
which
he
had
paid,
and
that
produced
by
the
sale,
was
partly
expended
in
the
stock
of
tea,
and
part
of
it
was
invested
against
a
rainy
day—
i.e.
old
age
or
illness.
It
was
but
a
small
sum,
it
is
true;
and
it
occasioned
a
few
evasions
of
truth
and
white
lies
(all
of
which
I
think
very
wrong
indeed—
in
theory—
and
would
rather
not
put
them
in
practice),
for
we
knew
Miss
Matty
would
be
perplexed
as
to
her
duty
if
she
were
aware
of
any
little
reserve-fund
being
made
for
her
while
the
debts
of
the
bank
remained
unpaid.
Moreover,
she
had
never
been
told
of
the
way
in
which
her
friends
were
contributing
to
pay
the
rent.
I
should
have
liked
to
tell
her
this,
but
the
mystery
of
the
affair
gave
a
piquancy
to
their
deed
of
kindness
which
the
ladies
were
unwilling
to
give
up;
and
at
first
Martha
had
to
shirk
many
a
perplexed
question
as
to
her
ways
and
means
of
living
in
such
a
house,
but
by-and-by
Miss
Matty’s
prudent
uneasiness
sank
down
into
acquiescence
with
the
existing
arrangement.
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