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A short, puffy, red-faced man in grey flannels went past.
It was Sir Hubert Atherton, of Overstrand -- that little place declared to be the richest village in all England -- and Francis Goring, recognising him, bade a hurried farewell to his naval friend, and with a hasty word of thanks to the German, went out.