The Craze of Christina — page 214: what you’re looking at

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210 The Craze of Shaswoa. eastern extremity of the park; it is on the side farthest away from Oldcastle, so I don’t be- lieve you ever saw it. A low white house with a thatched roof; it stands in a small garden ex- actly opposite the lodge gates on that side.”’ ‘*No, I never saw it.” ‘“‘Well, it is empty, and has not been occu- pied for some years, so [ expect 1t will want a lot doing to it before it is ready to receive you. [ am afraid it will take a month or six weeks at least, and I am thinking that I ought perhaps to leave you next week and go back and put things in train, so as to be able to send for you and Ella the very moment it is habitable. Who shall I give the job to? Shall it be to your old friend, Miss Ashley? or do you think Maud Om- maney would undertake it? Then there is Mrs. Bruhen, who has been so anxious to have a bit of furnishing and decorating to do,”’ ““My dear Mark, why have anything to do with any one of those women?’’ **You mean you would like to do it yourself? Happy thought! Why shouldn’t you and Ella come and stay with me at Esselton for a month and arrange it all yourselves? ‘That would bea truly delightful plan, Chris, and would do away with the parting between us, which I confess I have been looking forward to with the utmost Comichooks.co