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But Tyson was not thinking of Mrs Hathaway

"I mean that baby--Molly-- I ever did in the whole course of ht have

knoould end"

Stanistreet looked thoughtfully at his friend He was used to these

outbursts of self-reproach, but they had never ht to have married a clever woman She wasn't

clever, thank God! Yet soinality--I don't

knohat it was" (Tyson had lately fallen into the habit of talking

about his wife in the past tense, as if she were dead) "It was so

that no clever woman ever has I know them! Upon"I wonder hoould have answered

though if I'dwithof Miss Batchelor?"

"N-no There is a medium A woman needn't be a fool or a philosopher,

nor yet a saint or a devil It exists soolden mean"

"Oh, no doubt"

"It's odd how that notion of the perfect woet hold of it, I wonder?"

Stanistreet ot it fro was that Tyson was unaware of this

He seee with the perfect

woh somehow it had failed to