The Craze of Christina — page 48: what you’re looking at

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AA The Craze of Christina. for anything of the sort, because in the improb- able event of your failing to comply with the conditions of your uncle’s will, it would at once — become my duty, and that of my fellow-ex- ecutors, to communicate the fact to Mr. Charles Greville’s solicitors in London, whose name and address are in my possession.”’ After that Mark Clifford went his way out of Mr. David Scrubb’s house with the gloomy con- viction that he had not a friend in the world! He was apparently surrounded by enemies, and Docker was specially set as a spy upon him! The dead had played him a cruel and in- human trick, and the living were banded to- gether to persecute and stamp upon him. He went back to Esselton the next day, much depressed in spirits and not in the least re- freshed or benefited by his week’s change in London. “What have I done to be so saddled and ham- pered at every turn?’’ he asked of himself in his bitterness. ‘“‘How am | to live out these three years of solitude in that beastly old house? and how am I to endure the society of that diaboli- cal Docker for the residue of his earthly exist- ence?”’ Now, Clifford was scarcely justified in mak- ing use of these violent adjectives—EKsselton Comichooksico