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which she had last seen Mrs Nevill Tyson s She wondered whether

Mrs Nevill Tyson also recalled the incident If she did she

Apparently Mrs Nevill Tyson was so happily constituted that to her

trying situations were a stimulant and a resource She prattled to Miss

Batchelor about her new side-saddle, and her "friend, Captain

Stanistreet"--any subject that caed another with

it to the surface

Miss Batchelor was very kind and sympathetic; she took an interest in the

saddle; she assured Mrs Nevill Tyson that Drayton Parva had been much

concerned on her account; and she asked to see the baby

The next instant she was sorry she had done so, for Tyson, who had

continued to be char, went out of the room when the baby came in

The child was laid in Mrs Nevill Tyson's lap, and she looked at it with

a gay indifference "Isn't he a queer thing?" said she "He isn't pretty

a bit, so you needn't say so Nevill calls him a boiled shrimp, and a

little rat He is rather like a little rat--a baby rat, when it's all

pink and squirot such

pretty bright eyes But I''s eyes

Well, they're pretty too As he's so ugly I expect he's going to be

clever, like Nevill They say he's like me What do you think? Look at

his forehead Do you think he's going to be clever?"