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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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However,
it
so
fell
out
that
Fanny
had
to
leave
and
Miss
Matilda
begged
me
to
stay
and
“settle
her”
with
the
new
maid;
to
which
I
consented,
after
I
had
heard
from
my
father
that
he
did
not
want
me
at
home.
The
new
servant
was
a
rough,
honest-looking,
country
girl,
who
had
only
lived
in
a
farm
place
before;
but
I
liked
her
looks
when
she
came
to
be
hired;
and
I
promised
Miss
Matilda
to
put
her
in
the
ways
of
the
house.
The
said
ways
were
religiously
such
as
Miss
Matilda
thought
her
sister
would
approve.
Many
a
domestic
rule
and
regulation
had
been
a
subject
of
plaintive
whispered
murmur
to
me
during
Miss
Jenkyns’s
life;
but
now
that
she
was
gone,
I
do
not
think
that
even
I,
who
was
a
favourite,
durst
have
suggested
an
alteration.
To
give
an
instance:
we
constantly
adhered
to
the
forms
which
were
observed,
at
meal-times,
in
“my
father,
the
rector’s
house.”
Accordingly,
we
had
always
wine
and
dessert;
but
the
decanters
were
only
filled
when
there
was
a
party,
and
what
remained
was
seldom
touched,
though
we
had
two
wine-glasses
apiece
every
day
after
dinner,
until
the
next
festive
occasion
arrived,
when
the
state
of
the
remainder
wine
was
examined
into
in
a
family
council.
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