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Tyson was much flattered by the rumor that Sir Peter Morley had

pronounced his wife to be "the loveliest woman in Leicestershire";

for Lady Morley herself was a sufficiently splendid type, with her

austere Puritan beauty As for the rector, it was considered that his

admiration of Mrs Nevill Tyson somewhat stultified his utterances in

the pulpit

It is not alell for a woment of the other sex

reverses that of her own It was not well for Mrs Nevill Tyson to be

told that she had fascinated Sir Peter Morley and spoiled the rector's

sermons; it was not well for her to be worshipped (collectively) by the

riff-raff that swarmed about Thorneytoft at Tyson's invitation; but any

of these things were better than for her to be left, as she frequently

was, to the unmixed society of Captain Stanistreet He had a reputation

Tyson thought nothing of going up to town for the week-end and leaving

Louis to entertain his wife in his absence To do hilect was at first htened the luxury

of possession In his own choice phrase, he "liked to give a ht He knew Molly, and if he

did not, Stanistreet knew his were subtleties which

Drayton Parva did not understand, and naturally enough it began to avoid