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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER V
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You should use a mnemonic system.

I made a splendid one some years ago; it helped me immensely." "I could have felt sure," said Gammon, "that you told me once your father was a coal merchant." "Why, so he was--later on.

Am I to understand, Gammon, that you accuse me of distorting facts ?" With the end of his third tumbler there had come upon Greenacre a tendency to maudlin dignity and sensitiveness; he laid a hand on his friend's arm and looked at him with pained reproach.
"Gammon! I was never inclined to mendacity, though I confess to mendicity I have occasionally fallen.

To you, Gammon, I could not lie; I respect you, I admire you, in spite of the great distance between us in education and habits of mind.

If I thought you accused me of falsehood, my dear Gammon, it would distress me deeply.


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