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Perhaps it ell that Mrs Nevill Tyson took things so lightly,

otherwise she s at

Thorneytoft That hideous old barrack stared with all the unco

truculence of bare white stone on nature that sreeably round it

in lawn and underwood Old Tyson had bought the house as it stood fro its deficiencies according to his own

very respectable fancy The result was a little startling Worany veneer, brocade and tapestry were eked out with

horse-hair and green rep, gules and azure froe

lattices were reflected in a hundred twinkling, dangling lusters; and you

came upon lions rampant in a wilderness of wax-flowers What with antique

heraldry and utilitarian furniture, you would have said there was no

place there for anything so frivolously pretty as Mrs Nevill Tyson;

unless, indeed, her figure served to give the finishing touch to the

ridiculous ht of Thorneytoft would have taken the heart out of Mrs Wilcox if

anything could Mrs Wilcox herself looked remarkably crisp and fresh and

cheerful in her 's dress Tyson rather liked Mrs Wilcox than

otherwise (perhaps because she was a little afraid of him and showed it);

he noticed with relief that histo look

al effect to the fact