The Craze of Christina — page 241: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 237 chaplain who, having been properly primed and prepared as to what was expected of him, gave him every assistance and encouragement possi- ble. Good Mr. Smith was amused to find him- self a participator in a little romantic episode. An heiress and a fortune, and a story of true love, was the impression he had received from the beautiful young lady with whom he had been lately in correspondence, and with whom he had had an interview an hour or so ago, ‘“‘So long as you sign your own name in the register,’’ he had told her, ‘‘and not the one you have thought fit to assume, there will be no irregularity whatever in your marriage.”’ “But you will keep my secret, Mr. Smith, when Mr. Clifford calls upon you?”’ Mr. Smith promised to do so, and he kept his word. The revelation only came home to Clifford after the marriage service had been duly read over them, and he and Chris were man and wife. The little wedding party of three ad- journed to a small recess curtained off with green baize from the rest of the bare and barn- like chapel, and there Mark Clifford signed his name on the page Mr. Smith presented to him, after which ‘‘Mury Christina Greville’ was written in firm and legible characters, followed comicloooks. Eo