The Craze of Christina — page 227: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 223 CHAPTER XIX. Dourine the next two days Chris allowed things to slide back into their usual grooves. She made no more allusions to the subject that had been under discussion between them, and she exerted herself to be everything that was charming and fascinating in their daily inter- course. The weather had become delightful, and a little excursion to a ruined chateau about twelve miles away, along the spur of hills be- hind the town, diversified the life of the three travelers. It was a day to be long remembered. Clifford engaged an open carriage, and the sisters pro- vided the lunch, which they all three discussed in a sunny corner of the ruins, sitting on some moss-covered bowlders which had fallen cen- turies ago from their place high up on the keep of the old castle; at their feet the ground sloped away down to the plains and the view was nearly as fine as from Laon itself. ‘‘When you go on your honeymoon, Chris,”’ remarked her sister, ‘‘it ought to be in the sum- GComichookssco