The Craze of Christina — page 79: what you’re looking at

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The Craze of Christina. 75 accept defeat, a strong, hopeful, buoyant dis- position that was capable of over-riding every sort of danger and difficulty. And after Chris- tina—or Chris, as she was usually called—had sufficiently studied the late Mr. Greville’s will and its conditions, she came to the conclusion that the case was not hopeless at all. Man, Chris said to herself, is an exceedingly weak animal—that is to say, he is weak at his weak- est point, at the joints of his armor, so to speak. A manas young as Mr. Mark Clifford was perfectly certain to be as weak as most other men of his age; and Chris knew herself to be exceedingly strong. Therefore, she argued, there was something be done. And that something she proceeded forthwith to put in train. That was how the invalid father and his two daughters came to be located about two months later in that dreary London lodging which I have described, where they in- stalled themselves under the name of Mr. and vhe Misses Pratt. ‘If we must take a false name,’’ had pleaded poor Mr. Greville, “‘let it at least be some name to which we have a shadow of a right. My poor mother’s name was Pratt.” “Then Pratt it shall be,’’ replied Chris; ‘‘it Connliclooolksseo