The Craze of Christina — page 78: what you’re looking at

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74 The Craze of Christina. Henry Greville’s death and testamentary dis- positions to their client as soon as the event took place. The blow when it fell was doubly bitter, be- cause failing health had recently compelled Charles Greville to resign his clerkship, so that nothing but sheer beggary now stared him in - the face. The conditions of the will, curious and ex- traordinary as they were, seemed to hold out no sort of hope for him, because he could not con- ceive that any young man would be so foolish as to fail to carry them out to the uttermost letter. When he received a copy of the will, posted to him by Messrs. Chase, he himself scarcely glanced at it, so remote and hopeless did his own reversionary interest in itseem. But there was one person who read and reread it eagerly, poring by the hour together over the long- winded sentences of the formally worded docu- ment; and that person was his eldest daughter Christina. Now Christina Greville was a very remark- able young woman indeed. She was not only very beautiful, but she was also endued with the most striking qualities of mind. She had an indomitable will, a courage that refused to comich (0\(0) KS (E(0)