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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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“Elegant
economy!”
How
naturally
one
falls
back
into
the
phraseology
of
Cranford!
There,
economy
was
always
“elegant,”
and
money-spending
always
“vulgar
and
ostentatious”;
a
sort
of
sour-grapeism
which
made
us
very
peaceful
and
satisfied.
I
never
shall
forget
the
dismay
felt
when
a
certain
Captain
Brown
came
to
live
at
Cranford,
and
openly
spoke
about
his
being
poor—
not
in
a
whisper
to
an
intimate
friend,
the
doors
and
windows
being
previously
closed,
but
in
the
public
street!
in
a
loud
military
voice!
alleging
his
poverty
as
a
reason
for
not
taking
a
particular
house.
The
ladies
of
Cranford
were
already
rather
moaning
over
the
invasion
of
their
territories
by
a
man
and
a
gentleman.
He
was
a
half-pay
captain,
and
had
obtained
some
situation
on
a
neighbouring
railroad,
which
had
been
vehemently
petitioned
against
by
the
little
town;
and
if,
in
addition
to
his
masculine
gender,
and
his
connection
with
the
obnoxious
railroad,
he
was
so
brazen
as
to
talk
of
being
poor—
why,
then,
indeed,
he
must
be
sent
to
Coventry.
Death
was
as
true
and
as
common
as
poverty;
yet
people
never
spoke
about
that,
loud
out
in
the
streets.
It
was
a
word
not
to
be
mentioned
to
ears
polite.
We
had
tacitly
agreed
to
ignore
that
any
with
whom
we
associated
on
terms
of
visiting
equality
could
ever
be
prevented
by
poverty
from
doing
anything
that
they
wished.
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