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"The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so."

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About Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell was an English novelist and short-story writer of the Victorian era. She is known for works such as Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South. She also wrote an influential biography of Charlotte Bronte.

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