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I a than not

to be loved is not to be allowed to love And when to the same man, the despised one is naturally skeptical as to the

strength and purity and eternity of the other's feelings "She never

loved hi "He

never loved me!" I did not say that Miss Batchelor loved Tyson

So the baby eaned He did not howl under the process so much as his

father expected He lost his cheerful red hue and grew thin; he was

indifferent to things around hience, and the nurse shook her head and said it was a "bad sign

when they took no notice" Gradually, very gradually, his features

settled into an expression of disillusion

Perhaps he bore in his blood res of that wonderful

and terrible world he had been in such a hurry to enter He was Tyson's

son and heir

And that other baby, Mrs Nevill Tyson, so violently weaned frorew pale and thin; she too was indifferent to

things around her, and she took very little notice of her son

By a strange and unfortunate coincidence Captain Stanistreet had not been

seen in Drayton for the space of fivethis fact with

Mrs Nevill Tyson's altered looks, the logical mind of Drayton Parva drew

its own conclusions