CHAPTER I
The opening scene of this tale took place in a little village on the
southern coast of Cornwall. Treby (by that name we choose to designate a
spot whose true one, for several reasons, will not be given) was,
indeed, rather a hamlet than a village; although, being at the seaside,
there were two or three houses which, by dint of green paint and chints
curtains, pretended to give the acc...