The Craze of Christina — page 59: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Craze of Christina. 55 teach me once!—and then somebody left her a small sum of money, which she invested in that horrid little house and shop. My dear Mr. Clifford, for heaven’s sake don’t be taken in by her! her Chippendale is all sham—knocked up by a carpenter in the back yard, and as to the Sheraton sideboard in her front shop, it’s no more genuine than her Lowestoft china or her old Delft. You will be cheated to a certainty if you buy anything of her; she is a regular swindle—that’s what Miss Ashley is!”’ “I believe she is making a lot of money,’’ remarked one of the younger girls. *‘So can anybody make money, Ada, if they have no conscience and no honesty, and go in for cheating the public.’’ **Please tell me, Miss Ommaney,” put in Clifford, ‘‘as you seem to know so much about her, has Miss Ashley a sister?”’ ‘‘A sister? not that l ever heard of.”’ ‘Or a niece?”’ ‘She might have—for she is quite old enough to be an aunt, or a great-aunt, for the matter of that,’’ said Maud, contemptuously and spite- fully, ‘‘“but why do you ask?”’ —““Qh!—only--I thought I saw another lady, not Miss Ashley, as | passed tha shop this - morning.” Connicloooks.eo