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Title: Cranford
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Release Date: February 24, 2013 [eBook #394]
[This file was first posted on December 7, 1995]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRANFORD***
Transcribed from the 1907 J. M. Dent edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Extra proofing by Margaret Price.
CRANFORD
by
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
With twenty-five coloured illustrations
by C. E. Brock
1904
London. J. M. Dent & Co.
New York. E. P. Dutton & Co.
CHAPTER I | |
Our Society | 1 |
CHAPTER II | |
The Captain | 16 |
CHAPTER III | |
A Love Affair of Long Ago | 36 |
CHAPTER IV | |
A Visit to an Old Bachelor | 49 |
CHAPTER V | |
Old Letters | 65 |
CHAPTER VI | |
Poor Peter | 80 |
CHAPTER VII | |
Visiting | 96 |
CHAPTER VIII | |
“Your Ladyship” | 110 |
CHAPTER IX | |
Signor Brunoni | 128 |
CHAPTER X | |
The Panic | 142 |
CHAPTER XI | |
Samuel Brown | 161 |
CHAPTER XII | |
Engaged to be Married | 177 |
CHAPTER XIII | |
Stopped Payment | 189 |
CHAPTER XIV | |
Friends in Need | 204 |
CHAPTER XV | |
A Happy Return | 228 |
CHAPTER XVI | |
Peace to Cranford | 245 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
“Oh, sir! Can you be Peter” | Frontispiece |
Title-page | — |
A magnificent family red silk umbrella | 3 |
Meekly going to her pasture | 8 |
Endeavouring to beguile her into conversation | 14 |
She brought the affrighted carter . . . into the drawing-room | 24 |
“With his arm round Miss Jessie’s waist!” | 33 |
Mr Holbrook . . . bade us good-bye | 48 |
Now, what colour are ash-buds in March? | 54 |
I made us of the time to think of many other things | 74 |
“Confound the woman!” | 82 |
The temptation of the comfortable arm-chair had been too much for her | 106 |
Mr Mulliner | 117 |
We gave her a tea-spoonful of currant jelly | 124 |
Afraid of matrimonial reports | 140 |
Asked him to take care of us | 148 |
Slaughterous and indiscriminate directions | 157 |
Would stretch out their little arms | 170 |
“What do you think, Miss Matty?” | 179 |
Standing over him like a bold dragoon | 190 |
“You must give me your note, Mr Dobson, if you please” | 198 |
“Please, ma’am, he wants to marry me off hand” | 213 |
Miss Matty and I sat assenting to accounts | 220 |
Smiling glory . . . and becoming blushes | 231 |
I went to call Miss Matty | 234 |
Most of the three-colour blocks used in this book have been made by the Graphic Photo-Engraving Co., London