The Craze of Christina — page 114: what you’re looking at

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¢ : a « oa 2 i 110- The Craze of Christina. - tuous heroine, and the wicked earl bent upon sinister designs against her, and there was also a fearful prig of a good7-goody hero who always turned up miraculously in time to rescue her from the horrible pitfalls into which the villain — was perpetually enticing her. For a little while the book was rather amusing to Chris. It was new to her and it made her laugh; but a little of this style of literature goes a long way, and presently she began to be horribly bored; the book lay unheeded upon her lap, and she began thinking out her own thoughts, which were vastly more interesting to her. Naturally they dwelt a good deal upon Mark Clifford and Esselton Hall, and all sorts of crude and hali-formed plans and projects suc- eeeded one another through her active brain. Nothing at present was very clear to her, save the fact that she intended to make a fool of him to his own ruin, and that she felt she had already taken one step in advance in pursuance of this course of action. She would cajole him to his perdition and then she would crush him remorselessly under her triumphant foot. She did not pursue his ultimate fate any further, — because really it was quite immaterial to her what became of him eventually, she was quite certain about this; in point of fact she empha- com chooks (a{o)