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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XI
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I would suggest, my dear fellow, that you don't speak quite so loud.

Francis Quodling was the boy who so strongly resembled the Lord Polperro of the lawsuit.

Nose with high arch, and something queer about the nostril." "Yes! and hanged if it isn't just the same as--" A deprecatory gesture from his friend stopped Gammon on the point of uttering the name "Clover." Again he had sinned against the proprieties by unduly raising his voice, and he subsided in confusion.
"You were going to say ?" murmured the host politely.
"Oh, nothing.

There's a man I know has just the same nose, that's all." "That's very interesting.

And considering the Polperro reputation, it wouldn't surprise me to come across a good many such noses.


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