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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XXII
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What are those bells ringing for?
Yes, yes, of course, I remember--New Year's Eve.

I had no idea that people came here to see the New Year in.

I shall come again.
I shall come every year; it's most enjoyable." They entered the Churchyard and were soon amid a noisy, hustling throng, an assembly composed of clerks and countermen, roughs and pickpockets, with a sprinkling of well-to-do rowdies, and numerous girls or women, whose shrieks, screams, and yelps sounded above the deeper notes of masculine uproar.

Gammon, holding tight to his companion's arm, endeavoured to pilot him in a direction where the crowd was thinnest, still moving westward; but Lord Polperro caught the contagion of the tumult and began pressing vehemently into the surging mass.
"This does me good, Gammon.

It's a long time since I've mixed with people.


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