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And the cause of it all was Mrs Nevill Tyson Yet he was proud of her

still; proud even of the notoriety which was a tribute to her beauty To

tell the truth, her notoriety was his protection Once the elections were

over, gossip was too busy with the wife to pay much attention to the

husband He was considered to have extinguished hiretted that he had no profession To be the

husband of the loveliest woh

for any man

By a further social paradox, Mrs Nevill Tyson owed much of her present

notoriety to her former obscurity Lady Morley, had her teht have been as frisky or as risky as she pleased, without

attracting unkind attention, much less censure But, unless she coel with the manners of a district visitor, and

contrived to walk circuood society," a daughter of Mrs Wilcox was condemned already

Mrs Nevill Tyson had never walked circumspectly in her life And Fate,

that follows on the footsteps of the fool, aiting, if not to catch

Mrs Nevill Tyson tripping, at any rate to prove that she must trip

At first Fate merely willed that Sir Peter should take a journey up to

town Sir Peter's serviceable tweed suit, that had lasted hio at the corners We know Stanistreet's opinion

of Sir Peter's taste in dress; it was only a coarser expression of the