The Craze of Christina — page 92: what you’re looking at

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88 The Craze of Christina. presented to the world, it is not to be denied that Chris experienced a good deal of inward trepidation as she neared the scene where she intended to inaugurate the first move of the bold and desperate game that she had deter- mined to play. . It was not the gay company she expected to encounter, however, that she feared; the crowd of strangers, the curious looks, the smart clothes had no terrors for her; no, nor even was it the man himself, for she had seen him once, and he had appeared to her to be young and in- significant; it was the magnitude of her own designs and the greatness of the task she had set herself, which caused her to quail a little now that she had actually entered upon the path she had determined to pursue. Nevertheless her courage rose when she turned in at the open lodge gates of Esselton Park. To the Australian-bred girl it was her first near acquaintance with one of the stately old homes of the mother country, of which she had often read, but which she had never imag- ined she would reaily see. The wide reaches of the park were beautiful and attractive even in winter. Her eyes wandered with delight to the right and left, over long slopes dotted with magnificent trees, deep glades carpeted with (e(0) S OMmiGbook (E(0