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Cranford
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Miss
Barkers,
who
confined
themselves
to
truth,
and
did
not
approve
of
miscellaneous
customers,
throve
notwithstanding.
They
were
self-denying,
good
people.
Many
a
time
have
I
seen
the
eldest
of
them
(she
that
had
been
maid
to
Mrs
Jamieson)
carrying
out
some
delicate
mess
to
a
poor
person.
They
only
aped
their
betters
in
having
“nothing
to
do”
with
the
class
immediately
below
theirs.
And
when
Miss
Barker
died,
their
profits
and
income
were
found
to
be
such
that
Miss
Betty
was
justified
in
shutting
up
shop
and
retiring
from
business.
She
also
(as
I
think
I
have
before
said)
set
up
her
cow;
a
mark
of
respectability
in
Cranford
almost
as
decided
as
setting
up
a
gig
is
among
some
people.
She
dressed
finer
than
any
lady
in
Cranford;
and
we
did
not
wonder
at
it;
for
it
was
understood
that
she
was
wearing
out
all
the
bonnets
and
caps
and
outrageous
ribbons
which
had
once
formed
her
stock-in-trade.
It
was
five
or
six
years
since
she
had
given
up
shop,
so
in
any
other
place
than
Cranford
her
dress
might
have
been
considered
passée.
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