The Craze of Christina — page 221: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 217 ‘“Look here, Chris,’’ he began in a suffocated voice, ‘I can’t quarrel with you!’’ ‘‘My dear Mark, it takes two to make a quarrel! Iam not quarreling!” ~ You have accused me of a terrible thing.” “I have not ‘accused’ you of anything. I have stated a fact.’’ “A fact! Oh, Chris! how unjust you are!’’ ‘Is 1t not a fact that whereas I could bear poverty with you gladly and joyfully, you do not love me enough to face poverty with me? Can you deny that this has been the long and short of all that has been said between us? You love your money more than you love me,”’ ‘*‘How can you say so when already I have sacrificed a large sum in order to remain in your society?”’ She could make no direct reply to this. She seemed to be considering with herself for a brief space. Then suddenly her whole aspect changed. She held out her hand to him, and the wonderful smile that always seemed to carry conviction as well as rapture to his heart, beamed in her lovely eyes and was reflected on the rosy curves of her lips, ‘‘Ah, Mark! do consider! How many bad names have you not cast at me during the last ten minutes? I have talked ina wild way! I Comichooksico