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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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One
day,
at
a
select
party
in
his
honour,
which
Miss
Pole
gave,
and
from
which,
as
Mrs
Jamieson
honoured
it
with
her
presence,
and
had
even
offered
to
send
Mr
Mulliner
to
wait,
Mr
and
Mrs
Hoggins
and
Mrs
Fitz-Adam
were
necessarily
excluded—
one
day
at
Miss
Pole’s,
Mr
Peter
said
he
was
tired
of
sitting
upright
against
the
hard-backed
uneasy
chairs,
and
asked
if
he
might
not
indulge
himself
in
sitting
cross-legged.
Miss
Pole’s
consent
was
eagerly
given,
and
down
he
went
with
the
utmost
gravity.
But
when
Miss
Pole
asked
me,
in
an
audible
whisper,
“if
he
did
not
remind
me
of
the
Father
of
the
Faithful?”
I
could
not
help
thinking
of
poor
Simon
Jones,
the
lame
tailor,
and
while
Mrs
Jamieson
slowly
commented
on
the
elegance
and
convenience
of
the
attitude,
I
remembered
how
we
had
all
followed
that
lady’s
lead
in
condemning
Mr
Hoggins
for
vulgarity
because
he
simply
crossed
his
legs
as
he
sat
still
on
his
chair.
Many
of
Mr
Peter’s
ways
of
eating
were
a
little
strange
amongst
such
ladies
as
Miss
Pole,
and
Miss
Matty,
and
Mrs
Jamieson,
especially
when
I
recollected
the
untasted
green
peas
and
two-pronged
forks
at
poor
Mr
Holbrook’s
dinner.
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