troy-earned

Updated: May 9, 2025

"Well, I always favoured Cap'n Hocken's chance, for my part. An', come to think, 'tis more fitty 't should happen so. When all's said an' done, t'other's a foreigner, as you might say, from the far side o' the Duchy: an' if old Bosenna's money is to go anywhere, why then, bein' Troy-earned, let it go to a Troy man." "But 'tis a facer for Cap'n Hunken, all the same. Poor chap, look at 'en."

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Hocken and Hunken