The Craze of Christina — page 76: what you’re looking at

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72 The Craze_of Christina. him; but at sixty, with broken health, a manis no longer abletowork. I[tis right and fair that you should be rich and comfortable in your old age, as that horrid old man always led you to suppose that you would be, and if it is in my power by any art or contrivance to wrest this fortune away from this youth, who does not want it in the least, and to give it to you, who can enjoy and appreciate it fully, then I shall certainly do so—at any rate I am going to have a good try ior it; so do not seek any longer to dissuade me.,’’ Charles Greville, for this invalid gentleman was, as the reader will have divined, the late miser’s Australian cousin, sighed a little and shook his head, but he did nothing more de- cided than that. Great misfortunes had broken his spirit as well as his health, and he was so used to be led and dominated by his strong- willed daughter that he never attempted to con- trol her in any way. At the time of his marriage Charles Greville had been a prosperous and well-to-do man.. He had owned large vineyards and lived upon his own land in good style and with every comfort, But of late years things had gone steadily down with him; bad years had ruined his grapes, and he had vainly striven to pull back his losses by Gomichd (oYe) KS (E(0