text:  Radiant with beauty and conscious of the sensation she was certain to create she entered the magnificent apartment where supper was prepared--a supper splendid and costly enough to have satisfied a whole army of epicures though only intended for her father the stranger and herself; and if you oh reader! had been there you would have thought Christina lovely enough to have excited the admiration of a whole court instead of an old man--and that too her father--and a young one and that none other to Christina's infinite disgust than the very Count Ericson whose acquaintance she had already made and whom she infinitely and unappeasably disliked