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'You are a liar, says I, and forthwith I breaks his head with the stick which I holds behind me, and which my coko has conveyed privily into my hand." "And this is your action at law, Ursula?" "Yes, brother, this is my action at club-law." "And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, and what not?"
"By no means, brother; I should bring my action of law against him." "Your action at law, Ursula?" "Yes, brother, I should give a whistle, whereupon all one's cokos and batus, and all my near and distant relations, would leave their fiddling, dukkerin, and horse-dealing, and come flocking about me. 'What's the matter, Ursula? says my coko.
"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio." Ursula was silent. "Marriage is an honourable estate, Ursula." "Well, brother, suppose it be?"