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about cathedrals to Mrs Nevill Tyson he was giving a serious, not to say

sacerdotal, character to a frivolous occupation

"Well, only St Peter's and the one at Milan"

"And which did you prefer! I am told that St Peter's is very like our

own St Paul's--or I should say St Paul's--"

"Oh, please don't ask me! I know no more than the man in the moon--I mean

the man in the honeymoon" (that joke was Tyson's), "and a lot he knows

about it There's the

merrily in her husband's direction

Meanwhile Tyson was reeable to Miss Batchelor And this

is how he did it

"I hear, Miss Batchelor, that you are a lady of genius"

There was a rued on a work of fiction,

which indeed h not exactly in the sense

intended

"Indeed; who told you that?"

"Scandal But I never listen to scandal, and I didn't believe it"

"I don't suppose you believe that a woeniuses, before now; but in every

instance it s if I tell you what it

meant"