The Craze of Christina — page 154: what you’re looking at

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150 The Craze of Christina. Miss Ashley’s violent outburst of unholy glee, Miss Pratt perceived that the amiable lady had gone off upon a totally different assumption, and that she certainly knew nothing whatever about the real state of affairs. So she resumed her equanimity and aghed quite merrily. “Don’t you think we have had about enough vituperation, my dear Miss Ashley?’’ and as she spoke she drew in a chair to the table and sat down. ‘“‘Will you have some poached eggs?’’—lifting up the cover in front of her. ‘“‘And please give me my tea, I am very thirsty.”’ “I don’t know how I can bring myself to sit at meat with you!’’ snarled Miss Ashley. ‘There is no meat, as it happens, so that difficulty is easily overcome.”’ ‘*You ought in common decency, if you have any, to leave my house to-morrow.”’ *‘Well, perhaps I haven’t got common de- cency, but I have got your written letter con- cerning a week’s notice on either side, so as it suits me best to stick to that, I shall go this day week, if you please.”’ After that the meal was eaten in total silence, and it is not to be denied that Miss Ashley felt uncomfortably aware that the part she had Gomich (00) KS (E(0)