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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER XV
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I'll tell you all about it, when we have time.

What a lot of people all at once! Ah, it's the 2.40 train that brings them.

You came by the one before?
There's Mrs.
Toplady; so she isn't late, after all." The audience began to seat itself.

A string-band, under a marquee aside from the plot of smooth turf which represented the stage, began to discourse old English music; on this subject, as soon as they were seated side by side, Dymchurch had the full benefit of May's recently acquired learning.

How quick the girl was in gathering any kind of information! And how intelligently she gave it forth! Babble as she might, one could never (thought the amused peer) detect a note of vulgarity; at worst, there was excess of ingenuousness; a fault, after all, in the right direction.


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