Cranford
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You are Mary, drawn into Cranford's careful campaign to inspect the town's new military neighbor before gossip can. Captain Brown announces his poverty as plainly as his admiration for Dickens, unsettling Miss Deborah Jenkyns and disarming her gentler sister, Miss Matty, who accepts his shabby copy of Pickwick over Deborah's objections. The visit that began as reconnaissance turns urgent when his elder daughter's cough worsens and a medicine bottle arrives with two conflicting doses on its label.
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