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receding from view, he beca Mr Nevill Tyson dashed into his uncle's place, he drew all eyes

on him by the very unexpectedness of his advent And now it seenificent social bandit who

trampled, so to speak, on the orchids of respectability, and rode

rough-shod over the sleek traditions of Thorneytoft, was after all

nothing better than a little City tailor's son

Of course it didn't matter in the very least A man's a man for all that;

but when the man, in his brilliant oratorical way, has intiht, and that you funk your fences, you iven

if you smile a sly private smile at his expense

And Sir Peter did oose that laid the golden eggs?" (Ha, ha! Sir Peter had

made a joke) He went home merrily at the end of the week in his new clothes with his

new idea; and as he sat in the train he kept turning that little bit of

gossip over and over, and tasting it It lasted him all the way froreatly care for woossip; but he liked his own And really the provocation had been

intense It was tit for tat, quid pro quo, as sauce for the

goose--the goose again! Ha! ha! ha! It was a good thing for Sir Peter

that Vance had given him another two inches round the waist