cannot give an honest traveler a bed for the night? For what other purpose was it built? And how do you live, if you have no custom?" "We have custom," returned the woman sullenly. "I've told you that. There's men come in from the farms and outlying places. There are farms and cottages scattered over these moors for miles around, and folk come from there. There are evenings when the bar is full of them." "The driver on the coach yesterday told me respectable people did not come to Jamaica anymore. He said they were afraid.
( Daphne du Maurier )
[ Jamaica Inn ]
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