[The Town Traveller by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Town Traveller CHAPTER XVI 5/20
A touch of liver now and then, but nothing serious.
By the by, anything I can do for you? Any genealogy ?" Gammon had drained his tumbler of hot whisky, and felt better for it. With the second he became more communicative.
He asked himself why, after all, he should not hang on to the clue he had obtained from Polly, and why Greenacre should not be made use of. "Know anything about a Gildersleeve ?" he asked with a laugh. His companion smiled cheerfully, looking at once more interested. "Gildersleeve! Why, yes, there was a boy of that name--no, no; it was Gildersleeves, I remember.
Any connexion with Quodling ?" "Can't say.
The people I mean live in Stanhope Gardens.
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