The Craze of Christina — page 70: what you’re looking at

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66 The Craze of Christina. of his coat and shirt-cuffs. Poverty seemed also to have stamped her unpleasing hall-mark upon his two companions—both young girls— for their clothes were patched and threadbare, and made after a style that had long gone out of fashion. The younger of the two was seated by her father’s chair, holding his transparent hand in hers. She was small and frail looking, and appeared to be of a timid and nervous nature. Her dark eyes, as well as those of the invalid, rested with admiration upon the elder sister, who stood with her back to the fireplace in the center of the hearthrug, talking volubly and earnestly, and with a certain energy of con- viction which seemed intended to sweep away the doubts and hesitations in the minds of her two hearers. ‘I tell you it can be done, it shall be done, and I am going to do it!”’ she was saying. ‘I am going to succeed—I don’t know the meaning of the word failure. Do you imagine that I would have dragged you both halfway round the world if I had not felt certain that I could carry the thing out?”’ ‘“‘I wish from my heart we had never come to this miserable country!’’ sighed her sister, tearfully. “That is because you have no more pluck Comichooks.co