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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. 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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