The Craze of Christina — page 212: what you’re looking at

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208 The Craze of Christina. in her moods and in her conversation, that the man who could experience a moment of weari- ness in her society would have been aard to find. Chris was a wise woman, and she knew very well that in order to maintain the keenness of a man’s affection in its first freshness he must never for one moment be allowed to find him- self bored. And she exerted herself to the uttermost of her powers—which were very con- siderable—to keep him constantly amused and interested. During the long hours in which they daily wandered together round the ram- parts or amongst the picturesque streets of the little French cathedral town, they held long and absorbing conversations together upon every subject under the sun, and Clifford be- came more and more convinced that she was the one woman in the whole world for him, and naturally he fell more and more thoroughly under the spell of her charm. Nothing very much had been said between them concerning their plans, for Chris had in- tentionally and with a quiet persistence turned the conversation into other channels whenever Clifford had endeavored to speak of the imme- diate future. But he grew moro thoroughly in love with her day by day, and as he did so he Comichooks.co