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Title: The Tysons
(Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)

Author: May Sinclair

Release Date: April 28, 2005 [eBook #15722]

Language: English

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THE TYSONS

(Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)

by

MAY SINCLAIR

Author of _THE DIVINE FIRE_, _THE HELPMATE_, etc.

1906

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. MR. NEVILL TYSON

II. MRS. NEVILL TYSON

III. MR. AND MRS. NEVILL TYSON AT HOME

IV. THE FIRST STONE

V. THE NIGHT WATCH

VI. A SON AND HEIR

VII. SIR PETER'S NEW CLOTHES

VIII. TOWARDS "THE CROSS-ROADS"

IX. AN UNNATURAL MOTHER

X. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

XI. THE RETURN OF ODYSSEUS

XII. A FLAT IN TOWN

XIII. MRS. WILCOX TO THE RESCUE

XIV. THE "CRITERION"

XV. CONFLAGRATION

XVI. THE NEW LIFE

XVII. THE CAPTAIN OF HIS SOUL

XVIII. A MIRACLE

XIX. CONFESSIONAL

XX. A MAN AND A SPHINX

XXI. OUT OF THE NIGHT

XXII. IN THE DESERT

XXIII. _IN MEMORIAM_

CHAPTER I

MR. NEVILL TYSON

There were only two or three houses in Drayton Parva where Mr. and Mrs.
Nevill Tyson were received. A thrill of guilty expectation used to go
through the room when they were announced, and people watched them with
a fearful interest, as if they were the actors in some enthralling but
forbidden drama.

Perhaps, if she had been tried by a jury of her peers--but Mrs. Nevill
Tyson had no peers in Drayton Parva. She was tried by an invisible and
incorruptible jury of ideas in Miss Batchelor's head. Opinion sways all
things in Drayton Parva, and Miss Batchelor swayed opinion.

As for Mr. Nevill Tyson, he had dropped into Leicestershire from heaven
knows where, and was understood to be more or less on his trial. Nobody
knew anything about him, except that he was a nephew of old Tyson of
Thorneytoft, and had come in for the property. Nobody cared