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There were only two or three houses in Drayton Parva where Mr and Mrs

Nevill Tyson were received A thrill of guilty expectation used to go

through the room when they were announced, and people watched them with

a fearful interest, as if they were the actors in so but

forbidden drama

Perhaps, if she had been tried by a jury of her peers--but Mrs Nevill

Tyson had no peers in Drayton Parva She was tried by an invisible and

incorruptible jury of ideas in Miss Batchelor's head Opinion sways all

things in Drayton Parva, and Miss Batchelor swayed opinion

As for Mr Nevill Tyson, he had dropped into Leicestershire from heaven

knohere, and was understood to beabout him, except that he was a nephew of old Tyson of

Thorneytoft, and had come in for the property Nobody cared much for

old Tyson of Thorneytoft; he was not exactly--well, no matter, he was

very respectable and he was dead, which entitled him to a little

consideration And as Mr Nevill Tyson was an unmarried man in those

days he naturally attracted some attention on his own account, as well

as for the sake of the very respectable old man, his uncle