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He does not know that he is Lord Clancharlie.
He answers to the name of Gwynplaine.
This fact is the result of his youth, and the slight powers of memory
he could have had when he was bought and sold, being then barely two
years old.
"Hardquanonne is the only person who knows how to perform the operation
Bucca fissa, and the said child is the only living subject upon which
it has been essayed.
"The operation is so unique and singular that though after long years
this child should have come to be an old man instead of a child, and his
black locks should have turned white, he would be immediately recognized
by Hardquanonne.
"At the time that I am writing this, Hardquanonne, who has perfect
knowledge of all the facts, and participated as principal therein, is
detained in the prisons of his highness the Prince of Orange, commonly
called King William III. Hardquanonne was apprehended and seized as
being one of the band of Comprachicos or Cheylas. He is imprisoned in
the dungeon of Chatham.
"It was in Switzerland, near the Lake of Geneva, between Lausanne and
Vevey, in the very house in which his father and mother died, that the
child was, in obedience with the orders of the king, sold and given up
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