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Updated: June 28, 2025
Now and then they halted for a few hours if they came to any village or small town where it seemed likely that they could do a little business, either in selling their crockery or cheap cutlery, baskets, and suchlike, or perhaps in fortune-telling, and no doubt wherever they stopped the farm-yards and poultry-yards in the neighbourhood were none the better for it.
Throughout he never took any notice of Little Dorrit, save once or twice when he happened to come close to her and there was no one very near; on which occasions, he said in passing, with a friendly look and a puff of encouragement, 'Pancks the gipsy fortune-telling.
Morris hoped that this also was over now. She had met some of these conjurors on the Blickley road; and seen others breaking up their establishment in the lanes, and turning their backs upon Deerbrook. Whether they were scared away by the mortality of the place, or had found the tide of fortune-telling beginning to turn, mattered nothing as long as they were gone.
But long before the introduction of Chinese astrology, magic, and fortune-telling, the Japanese practised various kinds of divination, as is proved by their ancient poetry, their records, and their rituals. We find mention also of official diviners, attached to the great cults.
"Not so as to practise it, or accept it so far as the future is concerned, and to play at it as a parody of fortune-telling seems to me utterly inadmissible." "And to be squashed with Lord Rotherwood's mighty name," said her sister, laughing. Lady Rotherwood would do so effectively.
So he held on to them a little longer, took a good breath and ran on some more. He thought he saw a chance to escape by running across in front of the fortune-telling tent, and he started that way, but a Gypsy man, with a gun, saw him and fired at him. I'm glad to say, however, that he didn't shoot Uncle Wiggily, or else I couldn't tell any more stories about him.
In Chinatown A Musician's Shop A Secret Society Gambling Houses "The Heathen Chinee" Fortune-telling The Knife in the Fan-Case A Boarding House A Lesson for Landlords A Kitchen A Goldsmith's Shop The Restaurant Origin of the Tea-Plant What a Chinaman Eats The Tobacco or Opium Pipe A Safe with Eight Locks The Theatre Women by Themselves The Play The Stage The Actors The Orchestra and the Music The Audience A Death on the Stage The Theatre a Gathering Place No Women Actors A Wise Provision Temptations Real Acting Men the Same Everywhere.
Morning hymn Much alone John Bunyan Beholden to nobody Sixty-five Sober greeting Early Sabbaths Finny brood The porch No fortune-telling The master's niece Doing good Two or three things Groans and voices Pechod Ysprydd Glan. I slept soundly during that night, partly owing to the influence of the opiate.
He had a lighted cigar in his hand, and brought with him airs of ale and tobacco smoke. 'Pancks the gipsy, he observed out of breath, 'fortune-telling. He stood dingily smiling, and breathing hard at them, with a most curious air; as if, instead of being his proprietor's grubber, he were the triumphant proprietor of the Marshalsea, the Marshal, all the turnkeys, and all the Collegians.
Ydo returned their pleasant speech with her accustomed ease, and then turning to Hayden, as if consulting him about the arrangements for her fortune-telling, said in a low tone: "The man you wish to see has returned and I have arranged a meeting in my library to-morrow afternoon between you and the owners of the property. You will be there, of course." "Naturally." He smiled.
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