14/16 Then Swinny, having shaken the dust of Thorneytoft from her virtuous feet, called on every member of her family, and told to each the same unvarying tale. She wasn't going to stay in a place where there were such goings on; it was as much as her character was worth. The gentlemen were after Mrs.Nevill Tyson from morning till night, you couldn't keep 'em off--not that lot. She hadn't much to say to them, but she fair ran after the Captain--it was perfectly disgraceful. And, as if nothing else would serve her, she had him up in the nursery when her little baby was dying. |