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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XI
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Cornish, you know.

Rum lot they always seem to have been.
Barony created by George III for some personal service.

The first Polperro is said to have lived a year or two as a gipsy, and at another time as a highwayman.

There's a portrait of him, Beeching tells me, in somebody's history of Cornwall, showing to perfection the Trefoyle nose." "Same as Quodling's, then," exclaimed Gammon.

"Quodling, the broker ?" "Precisely.


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