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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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CHAPTER
XVI.
PEACE
TO
CRANFORD
IT
was
not
surprising
that
Mr
Peter
became
such
a
favourite
at
Cranford.
The
ladies
vied
with
each
other
who
should
admire
him
most;
and
no
wonder,
for
their
quiet
lives
were
astonishingly
stirred
up
by
the
arrival
from
India—
especially
as
the
person
arrived
told
more
wonderful
stories
than
Sindbad
the
Sailor;
and,
as
Miss
Pole
said,
was
quite
as
good
as
an
Arabian
Night
any
evening.
For
my
own
part,
I
had
vibrated
all
my
life
between
Drumble
and
Cranford,
and
I
thought
it
was
quite
possible
that
all
Mr
Peter’s
stories
might
be
true,
although
wonderful;
but
when
I
found
that,
if
we
swallowed
an
anecdote
of
tolerable
magnitude
one
week,
we
had
the
dose
considerably
increased
the
next,
I
began
to
have
my
doubts;
especially
as
I
noticed
that
when
his
sister
was
present
the
accounts
of
Indian
life
were
comparatively
tame;
not
that
she
knew
more
than
we
did,
perhaps
less.
I
noticed
also
that
when
the
rector
came
to
call,
Mr
Peter
talked
in
a
different
way
about
the
countries
he
had
been
in.
But
I
don’t
think
the
ladies
in
Cranford
would
have
considered
him
such
a
wonderful
traveller
if
they
had
only
heard
him
talk
in
the
quiet
way
he
did
to
him.
They
liked
him
the
better,
indeed,
for
being
what
they
called
“so
very
Oriental.”
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