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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Miss
Jenkyns
rang
the
bell,
and
told
the
servant
who
answered
it
to
show
Major
Gordon
upstairs;
and,
presently,
in
walked
a
tall,
fine,
frank-looking
man
of
forty
or
upwards.
He
shook
hands
with
Miss
Jessie;
but
he
could
not
see
her
eyes,
she
kept
them
so
fixed
on
the
ground.
Miss
Jenkyns
asked
me
if
I
would
come
and
help
her
to
tie
up
the
preserves
in
the
store-room;
and
though
Miss
Jessie
plucked
at
my
gown,
and
even
looked
up
at
me
with
begging
eye,
I
durst
not
refuse
to
go
where
Miss
Jenkyns
asked.
Instead
of
tying
up
preserves
in
the
store-room,
however,
we
went
to
talk
in
the
dining-room;
and
there
Miss
Jenkyns
told
me
what
Major
Gordon
had
told
her;
how
he
had
served
in
the
same
regiment
with
Captain
Brown,
and
had
become
acquainted
with
Miss
Jessie,
then
a
sweet-looking,
blooming
girl
of
eighteen;
how
the
acquaintance
had
grown
into
love
on
his
part,
though
it
had
been
some
years
before
he
had
spoken;
how,
on
becoming
possessed,
through
the
will
of
an
uncle,
of
a
good
estate
in
Scotland,
he
had
offered
and
been
refused,
though
with
so
much
agitation
and
evident
distress
that
he
was
sure
she
was
not
indifferent
to
him;
and
how
he
had
discovered
that
the
obstacle
was
the
fell
disease
which
was,
even
then,
too
surely
threatening
her
sister.
She
had
mentioned
that
the
surgeons
foretold
intense
suffering;
and
there
was
no
one
but
herself
to
nurse
her
poor
Mary,
or
cheer
and
comfort
her
father
during
the
time
of
illness.
They
had
had
long
discussions;
and
on
her
refusal
to
pledge
herself
to
him
as
his
wife
when
all
should
be
over,
he
had
grown
angry,
and
broken
off
entirely,
and
gone
abroad,
believing
that
she
was
a
cold-hearted
person
whom
he
would
do
well
to
forget.
He
had
been
travelling
in
the
East,
and
was
on
his
return
home
when,
at
Rome,
he
saw
the
account
of
Captain
Brown’s
death
in
Galignani.
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