The Craze of Christina — page 58: what you’re looking at

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54 The Craze of Christina. people think they know a great deal on the sub- ject who really know nothing at all.”’ ‘‘There was Mrs. Bruhen, too.”’ ‘*Ah! beware of Mrs. Bruhen, Mr. Clifford!’’ interpolated Mrs. Ommaney, shaking a fat fin- ger warningly at him; ‘‘these young, flirting, . married women are most dangerous; she will get hold of you if she can; why, I overheard her offer to go up to London and take you to shops, and she asked you to give her lunch too! What are the women of the day coming to!”’ ‘*Yes, and the worst of her is that is that she is absolutely ignorant on the subject of decora- tion,’’ observed Maud; ‘‘no taste, no culture, no eye for color!”’ ‘Well, at any rate, you have a professional in Oldeastle,’’ said Clifford, leading the conversa- tion to where he had desired to turn it. ‘‘There is a place calling itself ‘Ye shoppe,’ of which, I believe, Miss Ashley is the presiding genius?”’ ‘Miss Ashley!’’ cried Maud with a laugh; - ‘‘well, there is a perfect fraud if you like! Miss Ashley has bought a few old tables and chairs at farmhouse sales, and she sticks a few brass pots and earthenware bowls in her win- dow, and then calls herself an art decorator! nothing could be more ridiculous! she was just a daily governess to begin with-~she used to Comichooks.co