The Craze of Christina — page 72: what you’re looking at

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68 The Craze of Christina. her sister gloomily. ‘‘Nobody in this suspi- cious country will take you without a refer- ence! and as everything is to be a secret from everybody who knows us, references are out of the question!”’ “*Yes, but don’t you see, (you silly thing, that I have quite squared that difficulty by what | say about a salary! forone woman who requires a reference there are at least fifty who will waive the point in consideration of not having to give any money! Oh, I know the world through and through! and I[ take it the world is pretty much the same in this hemisphere as it is in the other! I haven’t been a daily governess for five years in Melbourne for nothing!’ ‘Well, it remains to be seen, doesn’t it, whether you will ever get an answer to your advertisement?’ said her father. “If you don’t; what step are you prepared to take next?”’ : **T shall get down to Middleshire somehow or other,’’ replied the girl earnestly. ‘I might perhaps go to the house itself as a housemaid or kitchenmaid,”’ ‘Chris!’ cried her sister with an accent of real horror, ‘Show can you talk like that!’’ Christina laughed. How beautiful and bright Comichbooks:ce