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Cranford
·
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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I
received
two
Cranford
letters
on
one
auspicious
October
morning.
Both
Miss
Pole
and
Miss
Matty
wrote
to
ask
me
to
come
over
and
meet
the
Gordons,
who
had
returned
to
England
alive
and
well
with
their
two
children,
now
almost
grown
up.
Dear
Jessie
Brown
had
kept
her
old
kind
nature,
although
she
had
changed
her
name
and
station;
and
she
wrote
to
say
that
she
and
Major
Gordon
expected
to
be
in
Cranford
on
the
fourteenth,
and
she
hoped
and
begged
to
be
remembered
to
Mrs
Jamieson
(named
first,
as
became
her
honourable
station),
Miss
Pole
and
Miss
Matty—
could
she
ever
forget
their
kindness
to
her
poor
father
and
sister?—
Mrs
Forrester,
Mr
Hoggins
(and
here
again
came
in
an
allusion
to
kindness
shown
to
the
dead
long
ago),
his
new
wife,
who
as
such
must
allow
Mrs
Gordon
to
desire
to
make
her
acquaintance,
and
who
was,
moreover,
an
old
Scotch
friend
of
her
husband’s.
In
short,
every
one
was
named,
from
the
rector—
who
had
been
appointed
to
Cranford
in
the
interim
between
Captain
Brown’s
death
and
Miss
Jessie’s
marriage,
and
was
now
associated
with
the
latter
event—
down
to
Miss
Betty
Barker.
All
were
asked
to
the
luncheon;
all
except
Mrs
Fitz-Adam,
who
had
come
to
live
in
Cranford
since
Miss
Jessie
Brown’s
days,
and
whom
I
found
rather
moping
on
account
of
the
omission.
People
wondered
at
Miss
Betty
Barker’s
being
included
in
the
honourable
list;
but,
then,
as
Miss
Pole
said,
we
must
remember
the
disregard
of
the
genteel
proprieties
of
life
in
which
the
poor
captain
had
educated
his
girls,
and
for
his
sake
we
swallowed
our
pride.
Indeed,
Mrs
Jamieson
rather
took
it
as
a
compliment,
as
putting
Miss
Betty
(formerly
her
maid)
on
a
level
with
“those
Hogginses.”
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