Good offices to each other whenever they are in distress, the Parish for keeping their neat maid-servants in admirable order įor kindness (somewhat dictatorial) to the poor, and real tender Obtaining clear and correct knowledge of everybody's affairs in the
Troubling themselves with unnecessary reasons or arguments for Open for deciding all questions of literature and politics without That occasionally venture in to the gardens if the gates are left The said flowers through the railings for rushing out at the geese For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at What could they do if they were there? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford but every man cannot be a surgeon. In short, whatever doesīecome of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble,ĭistant only twenty miles on a railroad.
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. No part of them may be reproduced on the Internet or any other media without the permission of Mitsuharu Matsuoka. This e-text and its HTML documents are so devised that they can afford a proof of my own making. I would express my special gratitude crediting your name at the top of Proofreading volunteers are welcome! If you're interested please e-mail me. If there are any typos or punctuation errors in this e-text (I'm afraid many still remain), please do not hesitate to let me know. James maintains the invaluable e-text page of Wilkie Collins.
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