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No doubt this was the secret of the business that took Tyson up to town

soto his wife that could account

for his frequent absence, but she believed that he was looking about for

the long-pro that he

she was not surprised Neither

was Mrs Wilcox The flat had appeared rather often in her conversation

of late Mrs Wilcox was dimly, fitfully aware of the state of public

opinion; but it did not disturb her in the least She at once assumed

the smile and the attitude of Hope; she smiled on her son-in-law's

aberrations as she se, and for

the saible as the other She

went about paying visits, and in the course of conversation gave people

to understand that Mr Tyson's residence in Drayton had been soe a land-owner had a

great ations, as well as a position to keep

up in his county; but there could be no doubt that Nevill was quite lost

in the place, and that the true sphere of his activity was town Mrs

Wilcox's taste for vague and ample phrases was extremely convenient at

times

If his as the last person to be consulted in Tyson's arrangeht was taken for his son and heir

Not that the little creature would have been s; he was too profoundly indifferent to the world It