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As an instance of the cuckoo instincts of the true Romany, he told me that in North America—for which land, alas! so many of our best Romanies even in Borrow’s time were leaving Gypsey Dell and the grassy lanes of old England—the gipsies have contracted a habit, which is growing rather than waning, of migrating southward in autumn and northward again in spring.
My shirts! see what a deadly schism has happen'd amongst 'em for the laps are in Lombardy, and the rest of 'em here I never had but six, and a cunning gypsey of a laundress at Milan cut me off the fore-laps of five To do her justice, she did it with some consideration for I was returning out of Italy.
The gypsey held her close to him for a moment, his heart beating against hers, and then he turned away his head. "I love you, Kaya; I love you! Kiss me of your own will. I can't force you how can I? Your hands are struggling in mine, but they are soft like the down on a bird's breast! Some day you will come to me, Kaya, some day when you love me too. When ah!
The girl drew close to him and looked up in his face. "What shall we do, Velasco speak! You stand there with your eyes half shut, in a dream. Shall we run, Velasco? Shall we run on ahead?" The gypsey put his finger to his lips and crept forward. "This is a God-forsaken hole, Kaya!" he whispered, "No telegraph and perhaps no horses; they could only get oxen or mules.
We are the only six strangers and they give us the run of all that is going on At night we dine at the most remarkable club in the world, on the border of the Park, where the best of all the Gypsey musicians plays for us The music is alone worth having come to hear, and the dear souls who play it, having been told that I like it follow me all around the terrace and sit down three feet away and fix their eyes on you, and then proceed to pull your nerves and heart out of you for an hour at a time One night a man here dipped a ten thousand franc note in his champagne and pasted it on the leader's violin and bowed his thanks, and the leader bowed in return and the next morning sent him the note back in an envelope, saying that the compliment was worth more than the money The leader's name is Berchey and the Hungarians have never allowed him to leave the country for fear he would not be allowed to come back He is a fat, half drunken looking man, with his eyes full of tears half the time he plays.
The gypsey stretched out his arms eagerly. "Let me try, Bárin!" he cried, "So so?" The harmonics seemed to squeak in derision; they flatted, and the sound was like the wheels of a cart unoiled. "Stop!" cried Petrokoff, "It is horrible! For the love of heaven, Bradjaga, stop!" The gypsey drew the bow slowly and lingeringly over the flatted notes.
Don't you see she is whispering to Petrokoff now and looking at us through her pince-nez?" "So she is, the vixen, the miserable gossip! Slip out towards the door quietly, Kaya, while they are talking. I will follow directly. Wait at the back of the stable by the hay loft." The gypsey stood up suddenly and approached the little group of ladies, bowing to them and to Petrokoff.
Never was anyone so pure as you from the drop of gypsey blood which tingles in my veins and my husband's, and gives us every now and then a fever for roaming, strong enough to carry us to Mount Caucasus if it were not for the healthy state of depletion observable in the purse. I get fond of places, so does he.
Don't ask me to scratch, Kaya! I can't bear it so close to my ear. The din of their stamping is frightful, the swine! No one will notice." The whispering ceased. The gypsey bent his dark head again and the violin played on. "One, two one, two, three!"
The gypsey tossed his head, like a young horse when some one is trying to force the bit between his teeth; his chin stiffened and an obstinate look came into his eyes. He brushed her aside: "No," he murmured, "Go away, Kaya! He is a stupid fool, can't you see? I am not half through; it is heavenly to hear him! Go go! I want to tease him some more; I tell you I will."
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