The Craze of Christina — page 52: what you’re looking at

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48 The Craze of Christina. Then he caught sight of a picturesque ivy- covered cottage to the right of the square red brick house, and he remembered Miss Ashley! This of course was the lady-decorator’s cot- tage and shop adjoining each other, and this, evidently, was the curious way in which she proclaimed her trade to the public. But the bad spelling, as this poor ignorant young man called it, annoyed him. It seemed to him to be very uneducated to spell shop with two p’s and an e, and man with two n’s! Then the thought passed through his mind as to whether he could summon up the courage to knock at the brass knocker on the door of the ivy-wreathed cottage and to inquire whether Miss Ashley was in. But just as he was hesitating and debating he happened to look back at the windows on the ground floor of “‘Y° Shoppe,’ and there to his horror he perceived a face full of amusement looking out upon him over the top of the “‘art muslin’’ blind. The face wes not Miss Ashley’s at all. It was a young face, and it was a lovely face. Deep hazel eyes, hair so dark as to be almost black, growing in wavy strands low over a brow as white as milk, a short, straight, impudent little nose, full lips of crimson red parted over (E(0)| AA) (eleyoyo)| KS (E(0