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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“I’ll
do
it
as
you
tell
me,
ma’am,”
said
Martha;
“but
I
like
lads
best.”
We
felt
very
uncomfortable
and
shocked
at
this
speech
of
Martha’s,
yet
I
don’t
think
she
meant
any
harm;
and,
on
the
whole,
she
attended
very
well
to
our
directions,
except
that
she
“nudged”
the
Major
when
he
did
not
help
himself
as
soon
as
she
expected
to
the
potatoes,
while
she
was
handing
them
round.
The
major
and
his
wife
were
quiet
unpretending
people
enough
when
they
did
come;
languid,
as
all
East
Indians
are,
I
suppose.
We
were
rather
dismayed
at
their
bringing
two
servants
with
them,
a
Hindoo
body-servant
for
the
Major,
and
a
steady
elderly
maid
for
his
wife;
but
they
slept
at
the
inn,
and
took
off
a
good
deal
of
the
responsibility
by
attending
carefully
to
their
master’s
and
mistress’s
comfort.
Martha,
to
be
sure,
had
never
ended
her
staring
at
the
East
Indian’s
white
turban
and
brown
complexion,
and
I
saw
that
Miss
Matilda
shrunk
away
from
him
a
little
as
he
waited
at
dinner.
Indeed,
she
asked
me,
when
they
were
gone,
if
he
did
not
remind
me
of
Blue
Beard?
On
the
whole,
the
visit
was
most
satisfactory,
and
is
a
subject
of
conversation
even
now
with
Miss
Matilda;
at
the
time
it
greatly
excited
Cranford,
and
even
stirred
up
the
apathetic
and
Honourable
Mrs
Jamieson
to
some
expression
of
interest,
when
I
went
to
call
and
thank
her
for
the
kind
answers
she
had
vouchsafed
to
Miss
Matilda’s
inquiries
as
to
the
arrangement
of
a
gentleman’s
dressing-room—
answers
which
I
must
confess
she
had
given
in
the
wearied
manner
of
the
Scandinavian
prophetess—
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