The Craze of Christina — page 13: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 9 asperating finality, “‘unless indeed’’—he added significantly. **Why in the world did the old rier leave it to me at all if it was to be coupled with such hate- ful and detestable conditions!’’ eried Clifford, rounding almost wildly upon his butler, and in his mind he added: And you—you ,James Doc- ker, are of all these hateful conditions the most unutterably detestable! “‘Why did he tie me up in this ridiculous and childish fashion? why leave me the place at all, unless I could do as I like about it? ©» Why, I ask you?’’ ‘That is not for me to say, sir,’’ and Docker spread out his fat white hands with a gesture of deferential negation that seemed to Clifford’s heated fancy to have something of mockery about it. For after all, Docker must have known! Docker could not have lived forty years—man and boy—in the late Mr. Greville’s service without having some sort of idea why, after having quarrelled so desperately with his only sister that he had refused to go and see her when she was dying, he had ended by leav- ing all he had in the world to her orphaned son whom he had never set eyes upon. Docker too must surely have known why this munificent bequest, which might have been due to the tardy promptings of fraternal affection or to a Comichooks.co