The Craze of Christina — page 166: what you’re looking at

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162 The Craze of Christina. ‘‘Nasty, common, colonial-bred creatures, I suppose?”’ ‘‘Yes, most probably; but that condition is really only the least offensive item of my uncle’s atrocious will. There are two others far worse. I want to tell you about them.”’ ‘Well, you have no time now, for here is the train. You will have to tell me another time,’’ and she got into a second-class carriage. ‘Oh, this is dreadful!’’ he cried miserably, leaning in at the carriage window; ‘‘and I wanted to tell you everything so much.’ ‘*Come to Calais, then!”’ “*May I really?’ She nodded gayly at him. The train began to move. ‘‘What hotel?” he cried despairingly. ‘Hotel de l’Horloge,”’ she shouted back, and the train went on. Gomich (0\(0) KS (E(0