The Craze of Christina — page 131: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. ~~ 1127 duties and did not put her nose out of door, al- though it may be presumed that she received several invitations to do so. Two letters came to her by post, letters that she thrust guiltily into her pocket when they arrived, and that made her get very red in the face; and these letters, when she read them up- stairs in the seclusion of her own room, seemed to her to be full of the most mad and irrational nonsense that had ever been penned; they were so mad, in short, that Miss Pratt first kissed them, and then tore them into a hundred pieces, and she answered neither of them. Things, in short, were going much too fast for Chris, for she had never reckoned on being thus violently carried off her feet and hurried along down the dangerous path on which she had started of her own accord with so much deliber- ate calculation. | She felt now that she wanted breathing space in order to turn round and decide upon her next move. She had no idea what would happen next. What happened was that on the third after- noon, about five o’clock, the bell of the shop . door clanged and the master of Esselton Hall entered ‘Ye olde Shoppe.’’ Miss Ashley was showing some old brass GComichooks.co