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There is also an admirable statue of Silenus, with the infant Bacchus in his arms; a most beautiful gladiator; a curious Moor of black marble, with a shirt of white alabaster; a finely proportioned bull of black marble also, standing upon a table of alabaster; a black gipsey with a head, hands, and feet of brass; and the famous hermaphrodite, which vies with that of Florence: though the most curious circumstance of this article, is the mattrass executed and placed by Bernini, with such art and dexterity, that to the view, it rivals the softness of wool, and seems to retain the marks of pressure, according to the figure of the superincumbent statue.
"Not at all," replied a third; "this is a daughter of the Black Prophet himself; and, by japers, you hardened gipsey, it's a little too bad for you to come to see how your blasted ould father's work gets on.
Subscriptions were opened, and large sums levied, on one side, to prosecute for perjury the persons on whose evidence the pardon had been granted. On the other hand, those who had interested themselves for the gipsey resolved to support her witnesses, and, if possible, detect the imposture of Canning. Bills of perjury were preferred on both sides.
I won't go on the Common, and I shall go and get papa to say we're to go down Gipsey Lane. I can run faster than you." "That's very sneaking; but I don't care." "Papa! papa! Polly's called me a sneak." "No, I didn't, papa." "You did." "No, I didn't. I only said it was sneaking of you to say you'd run faster than me, and get papa to say we were to go down Gipsey Lane."
He was the proprietor of extensive estates in the neighbourhood; and while his lady was pregnant with her first child, as she was one evening walking in their domains, she encountered a strange looking gipsey, who, pestering her for alms, received but a small sum. The man turned over the coin in his hand, and implored a larger gift. "That," said the lady, "will buy you food for the present."
The language used was the old Slaavic, now a dead language, but used to this day as the vehicle of divine service in all Greco-Slaavic communities from the Adriatic to the utmost confines of Russia, and the parent of all the modern varieties of the Southern and Eastern Slaavic languages. A Battue missed. Proceed to Alexinatz. Foreign-Office Courier. Bulgarian frontier. Gipsey Suregee. Tiupria.
"Let's go on the Common to-day, nurse?" "Oh, don't let's go there; we're always going on the Common." "I'm sure we're not. We've not been there for ever so long." "Oh, what a story! We were there on Wednesday. Let's go down Gipsey Lane. We never go down Gipsey Lane." "Why, we're always going down Gipsey Lane. And there's nothing to see there." "I don't care.
"'No, Ma, sais Di all the girls address her as Di; ain't it a pretty abbreviation for a die-away young lady? But she is not a die-away lass; she is more of a Di Vernon. 'No, Ma, sais Di, 'gipsey ing, what a hard word it is! Mr Russel says it's what they call these parties in England. It is so like the gipsy life. "'There is one point, sais Pistol, 'in which they differ.
"Well, you have obliged me, and I will comply. Within a week the birth of an heir awoke the clamorous joy of the vassals, and summoned the strange gipsey to ascertain the necessary points.
And a certain little dark-eyed thing of my acquaintance, "little Nelly," or "the little gipsey," as I sometimes call her, knows the whole story of "Ellie and the Pretty Swallow," by heart; and another "wee thing," that cannot yet read, but is always wanting to have stories told her, knows all about Kay and Gerda, and the flower-garden, and how Gerda went to look for her brother, inquiring of every body she met, and how at last the good sister found him.
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