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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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But
I
was
right.
I
think
that
must
be
an
hereditary
quality,
for
my
father
says
he
is
scarcely
ever
wrong.
One
morning,
within
a
week
after
I
arrived,
I
went
to
call
Miss
Matty,
with
a
little
bundle
of
flannel
in
my
arms.
She
was
very
much
awestruck
when
I
showed
her
what
it
was,
and
asked
for
her
spectacles
off
the
dressing-table,
and
looked
at
it
curiously,
with
a
sort
of
tender
wonder
at
its
small
perfection
of
parts.
She
could
not
banish
the
thought
of
the
surprise
all
day,
but
went
about
on
tiptoe,
and
was
very
silent.
But
she
stole
up
to
see
Martha
and
they
both
cried
with
joy,
and
she
got
into
a
complimentary
speech
to
Jem,
and
did
not
know
how
to
get
out
of
it
again,
and
was
only
extricated
from
her
dilemma
by
the
sound
of
the
shop-bell,
which
was
an
equal
relief
to
the
shy,
proud,
honest
Jem,
who
shook
my
hand
so
vigorously
when
I
congratulated
him,
that
I
think
I
feel
the
pain
of
it
yet.
[Picture:
I
went
to
call
Miss
Matty]
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