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Though they had cut them dead lately, it must be confessed that some

people found Drayton Parva a very dull place without Mr and Mrs Nevill

Tyson They heard about them sometimes from Sir Peter, as now in

Parlia visits to the

Morleys' house in town Stanistreet, by the way, had his headquarters

somewhere in London; and in London Mrs Nevill Tyson revived She had

begun all over again She had got new clothes, new servants, and a new

drawing-roo-room it was, too--all white paint,

im-crack furniture A place, said Miss

Batchelor, that it would have been dangerous to sarette in And

if you would believe it, she had hung up Tyson's sword over the couch in

the dining-room, as a memorial of his deeds in the Soudan So ridiculous,

when everybody knew that he was nothing but a sort of volunteer (Miss

Batchelor had had a brother in "the Service")

Having furnished her drawing-roo up her husband's sword, Mrs

Nevill Tyson see noteworthy, but to have sat down

and waited for events

She had not long to wait By the end of the season she was alone in the

flat He had left her She had no clue to his whereabouts; but, other

people believed hi in another flat--not alone

Drayton Parva was alive again with the scandal Miss Batchelor, as becaence of Drayton Parva, alone kept cal