. Emphasis. (Introduction, p.
31.)

96. AND NEVER HAD THEY FELT, ETC. Note Grouping and
Pause.

99. SCARCE SWIFTER, ETC. What is the Stress? Why?
(Introduction, p. 28.)

101. IN VAIN. Note the transition at this line.
(Introduction, pp. 8, 9, and 25.)

113. WHY SHOULD THEY BRING, ETC. How does the voice
indicate the insincerity of thought in these lines?
(Introduction, pp. 21, 22, and 30.)

What Inflection is used on the various questions in this
and the preceding stanzas? (Introduction, pp. 18 and
19.)

127-133. Note the Grouping and the Shading.
(Introduction, p. 33.)

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CRANFORD SOCIETY

From "Cranford"

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the
holders of houses above a certain rent are women. 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, distant only twenty
miles on a railway. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen,
they are not at Cranford. 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. For keeping the trim gardens full of
choice flowers without a weed to speck them; for frightening away
little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the
railings; for rushing out at the geese that occasionally venture into
the gardens if the gates are left open; for deciding all questions of
literature and politics without troubling themselves with unnecessary
reasons or arguments; for obtaining clear and correct knowledge of
everybody's affairs in the parish; for keeping their neat maidservants
in admirable order; for kindness (somewhat dictatorial) to the poor,
and real tender good offices to each other whenever they are in
distress--the ladies of Cranford are quite sufficient. "A man," as one
of them observed to me once, "is _so_ in the way in the house!"
Although the ladies of Cranford know all each other's proceedings,
they are exceedingly indifferent to each other's opinions. Indeed, as
each has her own individuality, not to say eccentricity, pretty
strongly developed, nothing is so easy as verbal retaliation;