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"Neuralgia! Why couldn't he give her a stoe?"

Nohen Tyson expressed his opinion of Sir Peter with such delightful

frankness, both he and Mrs Nevill had overlooked the trifling fact

that Pinker, the foot a coal-scuttle, was listening with all his ears Pinker was an

intelligent fellow, interested in local politics, still more interested

in the affairs of his -cards had provided Pinker within the passion of elections; but when it was

reported that Mr Nevill Tyson had in private pronounced Sir Peter to be

a "miserable time-server," and in public (that is to say, in Drayton Town

Hall) declared excitedly--"We will have no tiate you open for theht across country, and doesn't funk his fences!" And when

Sir Peter remarked that "no doubt Mr Tyson had taken some nasty ones in

his tiSir Peter was right: that electioneering

business was Tyson's third great mistake It proved, what nobody would

have been very much aware of, that Nevill Tyson, Esquire, had next to no

standing in the county As a public man he orse off than he would

have been as a harmless private individual He could never have been

found out if he had only stayed quietly at home and devoted himself to

the cultivation of orchids, in the ed

to hoodwink hihbors into the belief that he was a