
“I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?”
Valmouth (1918), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 448.
Valmouth is a 1919 novel by British author Ronald Firbank. Valmouth is an imaginary English spa resort that attracts centenarians owing to its famed pure air. The town's name evokes actual seaside towns in the southwest peninsula of Britain, such as Falmouth, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Exmouth and Weymouth.
“I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?”
Valmouth (1918), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 448.