Look at his eyes.

Surely you knew all about that, child!...

No, it was before your time." Hilda then learnt that Mrs.Gailey had married a French modeller named Canonges, who had been brought over from Limoges (or some such sounding place) by Peels at Bursley, the great rivals of Mintons and of Copelands.

And that in course of time the modeller had informally changed the name to Cannon, because no one in the Five Towns could pronounce the true name rightly.

And that George Cannon, the son of the union, had been left early an orphan.
"How did he come to be a solicitor ?" Hilda questioned eagerly.
"They say he isn't really a solicitor," said Mrs.Lessways.