The Craze of Christina — page 204: what you’re looking at

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200 The Craze of Christina. of your own. And then I promise you, you shall not go to your husband penniless. Yes— we shall be very comfortably off, both of us.”’ ‘‘Well, then, don’t be mercenary and heart- less any longer, Chris; tell the man the truth and let him go. He loves you, I! am afraid; and it is like a cat playing with a mouse to keep him dangling after you when you know you never intend to marry him.”’ ‘*But I do intend to marry him!”’ cried Chris, jumping up impetuously and beginning to pace excitedly about the room. ‘‘Look here, Ella, I am going to tell youeverything. When I began with this thing I had no other thought in my head than to win back for our father a portion of the fortune he had missed by so little. I was as cold-blooded and mercenary about it all as you can imagine, and I looked upon Mark Clifford as an interloper to be plundered, a mere pawn in the game! was playing. I meant to make him fall in love with me, of course, be- cause | wanted him to run after me as he has done, so that he might break that condition of the will which gives us the fifty thousand pounds; but I intended, of course, to stop short at that. But now I can’t stop short. For the fact is, my dear, a very unforeseen thing has happened. I meant Mr. Clifford to fall in love Comicbooks co