The Craze of Christina — page 25: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 21 CHAPTER II, Nora Bruuen was the first to arrive, as was only to be expected, seeing that she was excel- lently mounted on a_ brand-new high-grade Swift machine, highly geared and furnished with all the very latest improvements—the very swiftest of all Swifts, in fact. As she shot out of the shelter of the woods she cast a quick glance to the right and left of her, and then she also sniffed, as Docker had sniffed, a sniff full of scorn and jealousy, and flavored with the very gall of bitterness. ““Here they come!’’ she muttered. ‘Just what I expected! Cars!’’ and then she put the pace on, and simply flew down the gen- tle slope. ‘‘I’ll get there first, any way!’ she said to herself. ‘“‘I wonder how they have the face to doit! That brazen-faced old harridan on her lumbering tricycle, anybody can tell what her motives must be, with those gawky girls of hers on her hands! and that Miss Ashley, too! with an eye to business, of course! rapa- cious pig! Well, nobody can accuse. me of in- Comichooksnco