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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell chapter 5 | Audiobook
Wednesday, 15 April, 2026
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell chapter 5 "Decisions", narrated by Isaac BirchallSubscribe on YT or Join the Book Club on Patreon and support me as an independent creator :Dhttps://ko-fi.com/theessentialreadshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOFfvo05ElM96CmfsGsu3g/joinSummary:Margaret listens to her mother’s plans during the rest of the evening and her thoughts linger on the townspeople who would always be expecting her to come and visit to help them. She tells her mother that they must indeed help the people of Helstone with great enthusiasm, which concerns her mother slightly, so she sends her daughter to bed early. The following day, Mr. Hale comes downstairs and announces that he is going to be out for the day, until around 7pm, letting Margaret know that she has until then to let her mother know the terrible news. Margaret wishes to get the thing over with and asks her mother to join her in the garden. They walk slowly and soon Margaret spews forth the news. Mrs. Hale is at first confused and then shocked and saddened. She goes on to ask why her husband felt like he could not tell her this news himself and is jealous that he told his daughter first. Her sorrows only calm a little when Margaret talks of how much Mr. Hale must have suffered under this tremendous weight. Margaret spend the rest of the day trying to comfort her mother. At around 7, Mr. Hales comes home, Margaret does not go to meet him at the door. When he comes in, he is grey and pale and looks afraid. His wife goes to him and throws herself on his breast where the two cry together. Margaret goes to her room to cry alone. In her room a servant enters and tries to arrange the room, but she is concerned for Margaret and goes to fetch Dixon. Dixon comes and tries to comfort her mistress but end up talking about how awful a man Mr Hale must be to have organised all this without telling any of them. Margaret defends her father and puts their servant back in her place for taking too much liberty. She send Dixon away and bolts the door behind her. Two weeks to organise a removal is almost far too short a time to get it all done, let alone enough time to find a house in Milton. Margaret sets to trying to find a place for her mother to go while she and her father find a house. She finds a place 30 miles away from the industrial town and proposes this to her father, where the agree on it. After suggesting it to her mother, Mrs. Hale’s only regret is that her husband cannot join her there too.SEO stuff I don't want to do. Elizabeth Gaskell's classic, "North and South" sees Margaret Hale's live uprooted as her family moves to the north of England. Initially disgusted by the ugliness of the industrial town of Milton, Margaret develops a strong sense of social justice after seeing the poverty and suffering of local mill workers.
