The Craze of Christina — page 143: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. £39 would have refused it utterly, had not Miss Ada Ommaney, on the principle of the ‘‘rush- ing in of fools,’’ here stepped into the breach. “Well, you might give it to Maud for a birth- day present if you don’t know what else to do with it, Mr. Clifford. It’s Maud’s birthday to- morrow, and she dotes on old embroideries; and she is quite mad with you because you prom- ised to come and see her sketches for the Art Gazette last Monday, and she waited in for you all the afternoon, and you never came! Soif you want to make your peace with her——’’ “‘Put down the embroidery to me, please, Miss Ashley, and send it to Miss Ommaney to- morrow with my card,’’ said Clifford, meekly turning to Miss Ashley. Yes, he knew he had promised! and it had gone clean out of his head! Miss Ashley scored. Still she did wonder where Mr. Clifford could have been on Monday afternoon, since he seemed to have broken his engagements to everybody on that day! And then, seizing the moment when Chris was wrapping up the embroidery in silver paper in the back shop, Clifford walked boldly after her, leaving Miss Ashley speechless with sur- prise. 3 ‘‘T must speak to you alone, or I shall die!’ he whispered, Comichooks.co