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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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When
I
got
back
to
Miss
Matty’s
I
really
did
begin
to
think
that
Mr
Peter
might
be
thinking
of
Mrs
Jamieson
for
a
wife,
and
I
was
as
unhappy
as
Miss
Pole
about
it.
He
had
the
proof
sheet
of
a
great
placard
in
his
hand.
“Signor
Brunoni,
Magician
to
the
King
of
Delhi,
the
Rajah
of
Oude,
and
the
great
Lama
of
Thibet,”
&c.
&c.,
was
going
to
“perform
in
Cranford
for
one
night
only,”
the
very
next
night;
and
Miss
Matty,
exultant,
showed
me
a
letter
from
the
Gordons,
promising
to
remain
over
this
gaiety,
which
Miss
Matty
said
was
entirely
Peter’s
doing.
He
had
written
to
ask
the
signor
to
come,
and
was
to
be
at
all
the
expenses
of
the
affair.
Tickets
were
to
be
sent
gratis
to
as
many
as
the
room
would
hold.
In
short,
Miss
Matty
was
charmed
with
the
plan,
and
said
that
to-morrow
Cranford
would
remind
her
of
the
Preston
Guild,
to
which
she
had
been
in
her
youth—
a
luncheon
at
the
“George,”
with
the
dear
Gordons,
and
the
signor
in
the
Assembly
Room
in
the
evening.
But
I—
I
looked
only
at
the
fatal
words:—
“Under
the
Patronage
of
the
HONOURABLE
MRS
JAMIESON.”
She,
then,
was
chosen
to
preside
over
this
entertainment
of
Mr
Peter’s;
she
was
perhaps
going
to
displace
my
dear
Miss
Matty
in
his
heart,
and
make
her
life
lonely
once
more!
I
could
not
look
forward
to
the
morrow
with
any
pleasure;
and
every
innocent
anticipation
of
Miss
Matty’s
only
served
to
add
to
my
annoyance.
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