The Craze of Christina — page 222: what you’re looking at

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218 The Craze of Christina. am ‘cruel’ and ‘unjust’! Iam everything that is bad! Only please tell me that you love me just the same.” Needless to say that he did so promptly, and in the most practical and convincing manner imaginable, The glamor of her charm once more over- powered him, and in the nearness of her beau- tiful person and in the touch of her lips upon his own he entirely forgot the anger and the dismay with which he had listened to her reck- less proposition. Nevertheless the subject having once been mooted was not allowed to drop. During the next two days Chris rarely lost an opportunity of vaunting the disinterested affection of persons who had thrown in their lot with one another regardless of worldly considerations, She led the talk upon such instances of what she termed “‘unselfish’’ love, extolling their dis- regard of all prudential and monetary matters, and mentioning with contempt those who con- sidered the mariage de convenance to be the most desirable form of matrimonial alliance. To hear Chris talk, one might have supposed that human beings could live upon morning dew and wild strawberries, sweetened by love, and that the payment of butchers and bakers (E(o)/ AA) (e[6) (0\(0) KS (E(0)