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Excerpt from Four-Chimneys: A Novel
That is Four - Chimneys, the traveller with some knowledge of the district would say, to which the obvious answer would be, More like forty chimneys. To this the better informed voyager would append a bit of local history. Four-chimneys, he would continue, rustling his newspaper apologet ically, and speaking in the detached manner which travellers forming an hour's acquaint ance in a train use towards each other four-chimneys is really a corruption, on the part of the country folk about here, of Quatre Chemins.' Yes, during Marlbor ough's wars a number of French prisoners were detained in England. The men in this district were lodged at an old - fashioned farmhouse, which you cannot see from here.
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