[The Town Traveller by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Town Traveller CHAPTER XXII 4/16
He will certainly come to-night.
If he doesn't come, do you know what occurs to me? Why shouldn't we drive into the City and ask whether he has returned ?" "Ask where ?" "He lives at a place--a sort of hotel--which he calls the Bilboes. Greenacre is eccentric, but thoroughly trustworthy.
He had a gentleman's education." "He lives there, does he ?" exclaimed Gammon. "Finds it convenient, I suppose.
Yes, we will go and inquire--we certainly will." Gammon's objections were unheeded.
No one could take any harm, said Lord Polperro, from driving in a closed cab to the City and back.
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