The Craze of Christina — page 189: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 185 CHAPTER XV. Docker had been nearly distracted when the week of Mr. Clifford’s absence passed away and there was no sign of his return home. To do this worthy butler justice he was not at all anxious for Mark Clifford’s undoing—quite the contrary; he desired him to keep to the terms of the will, and to remain master of Esselton as long as he lived, principally, no doubt, because he had a comfortable berth himseif at the hall, and had no wish to give it up, but partly, too, because, in spite of appearances, he really rather liked his new master. Mr. Clifford was easy to manage; he could turn him round his finger, he fancied—and Docker liked a sense of power im- mensely—and he quite thought that it would be impossible for him to have a more submis- sive master. He looked forward to good times to the end of his days as Clifford’s right hand and factotum, and it would certainly be no ad- vantage to him if Charles Greville and his family were to turn Mark Clifford out of his new inheritance. They, he knew, would be Commiclooolks.co