The Craze of Christina — page 223: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 219 and grocers was the vilest and basest of earthly considerations. Clifford divined the hidden meaning of these remarks, and wondered very much what had come to her. He was puzzled by this new de- velopment, yet he could not believe that she was serious in desiring him to forfeit his whole fortune. He felt indeed that it was too much to ask of any man, and that she herself must know it, and could only be saying these things to tease him or to try him. Nevertheless there were occasions when the subtle pleasure of dwelling upon the plan she had proposed almost overcame his prudence and common sense, so cleverly did she cause him to realize its sweetness. One evening they had wandered out together on the ramparts, tempted by the brilliancy of a particularly beautiful moonlight night. Chris had wrapped a fur cloak about her shoulders and had drawn the soft hood over her head, and her face framed in by the dark fur seemed to shine with an unusual tenderness at him under the bewitching radiance of the moon. The world was very still, only an occasional footfall broke the silence of the stone-paved streets; the wide plains of Northern France lay asleep beneath a veil of shimmering mist. Presently Comichooksnco