The Craze of Christina — page 206: what you’re looking at

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202 The Craze of Christina. ‘Then I don’t see——”’ ‘‘Wait awhile, and you will see, my dear sister !’’ ‘‘f recommend you then to wait the three years.” ‘‘T shall do nothing of the sort. I might lose him altogether. No man’s constancy is an as- sured fact until the law has safely tied him up —and not always then! You seelI have been down to Esselton; all the women of Middleshire are already setting their caps at him. The young married women want to flirt with him— there is a certain Mrs. Bruhen!—then the mothers of marriageable daughters are laying traps for him and the daughters are fawning upon him and flattering him; the very old maids are prostrating themselves at his feet! and I’d have an awful life of it down there if we were merely engaged! I should never feel safe, or trust, him out of my sight with any peace or comfort.”’ ‘*You can’t have much faith or belief in his affection!’’ “When I’ve made him give up Esselton for my sake, when I find that he prefers poverty with me to wealth without me, then my faith and belief in him will be unbounded, and I shall never doubt him again as long as I live.” *, Pe gs a a