The Craze of Christina — page 94: what you’re looking at

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90 ~~~ +The Craze of Christina. : looked upon this beautiful place; and she said to herself bitterly that if justice had only been done by its late owner, it would all have be- longed to her father, and after him to herself. Nevertheless, she had determined to wrest some portion of his wealth from the usurper who had stolen her father’s heritage—for it was in this light that she regarded Mark Clifford— and what she experienced at this moment, was all the excitement of a gambler who is staking his last coin upon a forlorn but gigantic hope. Now it may be as well here to explain what it was that this young woman had set herself to do, for although the details of her plan were at present necessarily somewhat vague, yet about the main features of it there was no vagueness whatever. There was a way by which, bearing in mind the curious conditions upon which Clifford had inherited his uncle’s fortune, it would be pos- sible to deprive him of the large sum of £50,000. Chris intended to make Mr. Clifford break one of the conditions of his uncle’s will—notably that one particular condition which ordained that he was not to absent himself from Essel- ton Hall for longer than one week at a time. Chris thought she could easily devise a means of making him dance half over Europe after her Ceoynnticelo) (0\(0) KS (E(0)