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Mrs Nevill's account of herself, though sohly colored, was

substantially true When Stanistreet suggested defeat, it was his first

allusion to her husband's desertion of her; and like most of Louis's

utterances, it was full of tact

Defeat? She had brooded over the idea, and then apparently she had an

inspiration

From that day, wherever there was a sufficiently important crowd to see

her, Mrs Nevill Tyson was to be seen She was generally with Louis

Stanistreet, as not a figure to be overlooked; she was always

exquisitely dressed; and sometimes, not often, she was delicately painted

and powdered Mrs Nevill Tyson hated as commonplace and loud; and

she had to make herself conspicuous in a season omen dressed

fortissimo, and a fashionable croas like a bed of flowers in June

Soed to strike soh that confused orchestra Everywhere she went

people turned and stared at her as she flashed by; and apparently her one

object was to be stared at She became as much of a celebrity as any

woman with a character and without a position "in society" can becoinal Mrs Nevill

Tyson reive her own supernatural näiveté to the character

Stanistreet was completely puzzled by this new freak; it looked like

recklessness, it looked like vanity, it looked--it looked like an