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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XI
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Now these boys were produced in court, then it was seen--excellent soup this--that they bore little if any resemblance to each other; and at the same time it was made evident, by exhibition of a portrait, that the younger boy had a face with a strong likeness to the testator, and many witnesses declared the same.

Interesting, isn't it ?" "For the widow," remarked Gammon.
"Uncommonly awkward, though she gained her case for all that.

Polperro, it seems, had a shady reputation--heavy drinker, and so on.

There were strong characteristics--some peculiarity of the nose.

The old chap used to say that there was the nose of the Bourbons and the nose of the Trefoyles, his family name." "What name ?" "Trefoyle.


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