The Craze of Christina — page 213: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 209 became restless and impatient. He began to long for the full completion of his happiness, and to fret and fume at the thought of those three years which had at first appeared to him to be such a trifling price to pay for the joy of winning her in the end. The first time that he expressed this feeling in words made an epoch in their love-making to Chris, and forthwith she mentally and silently turned over a page and began a fresh chapter, “as if were, in her own secret consciousness of. the march of events. They were walking in the country upon the adjacent hills at the back of the town, along a lane bordered with leafless trees on either side, when Clifford with a sigh remarked: “Oh, if I could only marry you at once, my darling! It does seem hard that I should be doomed to waii for you so long! For although no doubt we shall manage to be fairly happy in the interval, yet it will not be the same thing as it might have been. Well, we must see each other every day, Chris, when you come to Eng- land. But I sadly fear we shall have a short parting to go through before then.”’ ‘‘How so, Mark?”’ ‘Woll, you see, I want to settle you and Ella down in that cottage I told you about on the Comichooksnco