The Craze of Christina — page 42: what you’re looking at

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38 The Craze of Christina. of originality, or of artistic perception, but that perhaps did not signify very much to his client, whose ideas on this important subject were, as I have pointed out, extremely crude and un- formed. All Mark Clifford wanted, in fact, was to be saved trouble, and if possible, to be allowed to enjoy himself. George Jones en- abled him to do the former, although no human agency apparently could assist him in encom- passing the latter. When George Jones brought him some wall papers of hideous design and color, and assured him these were the very best and most beauti- ful articles to be had in the market, he agreed to them at once, and told him to do just as he liked in the matter; and George Jones, who happened to have a large quantity of these per- fectly unsalable wall papers stored away in his back shop, saw his way to doing a very good stroke of business, by using them up at Essel- ton Hall. But if he had been uncomfortable before the advent of George Jones, Mark Clif- ford was fifty times more uncomfortable now that the house was crammed from attic to cellar with that gentleman’s myrmidons. He was driven from attic to basement, from room to room. Wherever he went he tumbled over pails and paint-pots, and splashes of whitewash Comichookssco