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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER III--_The Hill of Humour_
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'Sallow!' he cried fiercely, 'sallow! _Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes._' It was said that no actuary ever made game of Dr.Polycarp again." Barker nodded with a simple sagacity.

Lambert only grunted.
"Here is another," continued the insatiable Quin.

"In a hollow of the grey-green hills of rainy Ireland, lived an old, old woman, whose uncle was always Cambridge at the Boat Race.

But in her grey-green hollows, she knew nothing of this: she didn't know that there was a Boat Race.

Also she did not know that she had an uncle.


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