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Neither the Abbé Salis, nor Roger's dear old instructor, Father Lefevre, nor Gossein, the faithful valet, who had played with him from childhood, and had known him well as a man, nor, indeed, any person in Paris who had been acquainted with Roger Tichborne, received a visit. In England the facts were the same.
To a stranger the names sound uncouth and meaningless, the fact being, that we all go by nicknames . 'Giblets, 'Diamond Digger, 'Mangelwurzel, 'Goggle-eyed Plover, 'Gossein' or holy man, 'Blind Bartimeus, 'Old Boots, 'Polly, 'Bottle-nosed Whale, 'Fin MacCoul, 'Daddy, 'The Exquisite, 'The Mosquito, 'Wee Bob, and 'Napoleon, are only a very few specimens of this strange nomenclature.
When questioned, the defendant had sworn that his father never had a servant named Gossein; but the letters of Sir James were shown to contain numerous allusions to "my faithful Gossein," and Gossein himself came into the witness-box and told how he had known Roger Tichborne from the cradle to his boyhood, and from his boyhood to the very hour of his going on his travels.
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