![]() ![]() which hung about her in long heavy folds, and which she wore as an empress wears her drapery. ![]() Her dress was very plain: a white ribbon a dark silk gown, without any trimming or flounce a large Indian shawl. Thornton was a good deal more surprised and discomfited than she.Instead of a quiet, middle-aged clergyman,-a young lady came forward with frank dignity,-a young lady of a different type to most of those he was in the habit of seeing. She felt no awkwardness she had business to her father and, as he was one who had shown himself obliging, she was disposed to treat him with a full measure of civility. "Margaret opened the door and went in the straight, fearless, dignified presence habitual to her.North and South is the second industrial novel published in 1855 - sometimes categorised as a social novel - and the fourth overall by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]()
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