The Craze of Christina — page 167: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. - 163 CHAPTER XIII. Curis was standing at the window of a small upper sitting-room of the Hotel de |’Horloge. It was situated at the back, for the front en- trance to the hotel was towards the street. It was an old-fashioned and somewhat second- rate little hostelry. It was not very clean, and it smelt of garlic and of cuisine bourgeoise generally, as second-rate French inns are wont todo. Nevertheless the people were civil and obliging and very anxious to please their clients. There was, properly speaking, no sea view from the Hotel de |’Horloge, but there was a glimpse of the sea to be had from one or two of the back rooms through an opening between two houses opposite. The opening was but a narrow oblong; first came a slice of sea-wall, then a stretch of the treacherous quicksands that border the shore, and lastly a strip of the sea itself, which to-day was drab-colored and melted away into the horizon into a gray and lowering sky. Nevertheless this little glimpse of the English Channel was valuable to Chris, because it was here that every day she Comichooksnco im