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Quotation from Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
“God pardon me, if ever I have spoken contemptuously to the Captain!”
Cranford, Ch. II, The Captain (Project Gutenberg text (1904 Dent edition))
Hearing that Captain Brown has been killed saving a child from a train, Miss Jenkyns sets out at once to help his daughters.
Citation: "God pardon me, if ever I have spoken contemptuously to the Captain!" — Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Ch. II, The Captain (Project Gutenberg text (1904 Dent edition)). (id cranford-q4)
Portrait: Elizabeth Gaskell, George Richmond, Public domain.
