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He had done all that she supposed, and ood for him; this happened occasionally now Then

he sat down and wrote what he thought was a very terse and biting letter

to Stanistreet, in which he said: "You needn't call You will not find

either of us at houst, nor at

Thorneytoft froust to May And if you should happen to reatly by cutting her"

This letter he left on the table outside for postage in the reat deal -rooht he was sleeping heavily in the adjoining rooht: it played with thethem out like streamers into the room; played with the flimsy

parasol lamp-shade until it tilted, and the little lamp was thrown on to

the floor

Mrs Nevill Tyson ith the light crash She sat up for a e, and opened the drawing-room

door A ind puffed in her face; the air was full of black flakes

flying through a red rain; a strea the floor, crests

of flames leapt and quivered over the steady blue under-current; and over

there, in the corner, an absurd little arht fire all by

itself; the fla like a skin, and

were slowly consureat puffs and clouds of sonized spirals The