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wo the words out like an execration that throbbed

with his scorn and loathing of the sex Other woh pedestal for the moment--made her

shine, for the moment, white and fair above the contemptible herd, her

obscure multitudinous sisterhood Other women! The phrase had an

undertone of dull passionate self-reproach that was distinctly audible

to Stanistreet's finer ear Stanistreet knew s about

Tyson--knew, for instance, the cause that but for this would have taken

him up to town; and Tyson knew that he knew

If it carounds for self-reproach

He took up a book and tried to read; but the words reeled and staggered

and grew di of the

clock, and the pulse of ti violently

with pain, a heart indistinguishable from his own Other women (it was he

who had used the words)--was it sirim lot

that Mrs Nevill Tyson had contrived to invest herself with this sonificance? Perhaps It was the sahed with, flirted with a hundred tis (Tyson apart) he would infallibly have ht her prettinesses, her iar only the simple eternal

lines of her woht think, he would not

think of her to-ht yesterday; whatever he felt

to- touch of tragic

pity Mrs Nevill Tyson would never be the same woman that he had known

before And yet--she was a fool, a fool; and he doubted if her sufferings

would make her any wiser