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Edward Rutherfurd Quote

So how would you define a Londoner, then? Lady Penny asked curiously. Someone who lives here. It’s like the old definition of a cockney: someone who’s born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner, he added with a grin, is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.

Edward Rutherfurd

So how would you define a Londoner, then? Lady Penny asked curiously. Someone who lives here. It’s like the old definition of a cockney: someone who’s born within hearing distance of Bow bells. And a foreigner, he added with a grin, is anyone, Anglo-Saxon or not, who lives outside.

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