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But the "trade" has been dwindling now for these thirty years, and to invent this fire-new service to suppress what's dying of its own accord is an infernal waste of public money. 'I doubt, Sir John demurred, 'if smuggling be quite so near death's door as you fancy. Hey, doctor in Polpeor now? The doctor opined that very little smuggling survived nowadays; the profits were not worth the risk.
'But, he went on, with a glance over his spectacles at Sir John, 'our host, who owns two-thirds of the cottages in Polpeor, may correct me and say that Government never offered a fair rent? Sir John threw back his head and laughed. 'My heir, when he succeeds me, he said, 'may start new industries in Polpeor; but I'll not build new houses to worry my sitting tenants.
At this rate half an hour would bring him to the gate of Landeweddy Farm, under the lee of Four Barrows; and beyond Landeweddy, where the road plunged straight to Polpeor and the coast, he would reach complete shelter.
Polpeor, you must know, is a fishing-haven on the south coast of Cornwall, famous during the Napoleonic Wars for its privateering, and for its smuggling scarcely less notorious down to the middle of the last century.
But Doctor Unonius, noting it not, drew forth the map from the breast of his greatcoat, unfolded it, and was proceeding to study it, again by help of the lamp. He recognised it at first glance for a map of the coast and country about Polpeor, and for this he was prepared; but the same glance showed him a slip of paper pinned to the map's left upper corner.
'Though, to be sure, he added, 'public opinion in Polpeor is still with the trade. For an illustration, not a soul in the town will let the new coast-guardsmen a house to live in, and I hear the Government intends to send down a hulk from Plymouth Dock and moor it alongside the quay. He paused.
'Your late eminent fellow-parishioner, now these forty years with God, so the Bishop of the Diocese spoke the other day before unveiling a stained-glass window to that memory in Polpeor Church. The Bishop, you see, spoke of eternal life in terms of time a habit with us all.
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The road led no whither but to Polpeor and the coast, and passed on its way no human habitation but Landeweddy Farm and a couple of cottages half a mile beyond it, close under the dip of the hill. . . . 'You are shivering, said Doctor Unonius, after a pause. The crouching figure nodded, but did not speak. 'Are you cold? Here, take some more of the rug.
Look at your Polpeor folk smugglers all, or the sons of smugglers a fine upstanding, independent lot as you would wish to see; whereas your poacher nine times out of ten is a sneak, and looks it. 'Because, retorted the doctor, but gently, 'your smuggler lives in his own cottage, serves no master, and has public opinion by which I mean the only public opinion he knows, that of his neighbours to back him; whereas your poacher lives by day in affected subservience to the landowner he robs by night, and because you take good care that public opinion is against him. 'To be sure I do, affirmed Mr Trelawny, and would have continued the argument, but here old Squire Morshead struck in and damned the Government for its new coastguard service.
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