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Updated: June 26, 2025
"You were just now saying that you disliked gorgios, so, of course, could only wish that I, who am a gorgio, should like you in a brotherly way: I wished to have a conversation with you beneath a hedge, but only with the view of procuring from you some information respecting the song which you sung the other day, and the conduct of Roman females, which has always struck me as being highly unaccountable; so, if you thought anything else "
Jethro's face grew still paler, and he opened his lips to speak, but paused, seeing Fleda, with a backward look of pity and of horror, draw back into the darkness of her room. He made a motion of passion and despair. His voice was almost shrill when he spoke. "Till that divorce comes, the daughter of the Ry of Rys is mine!" he cried sharply. "I will not give my wife to a Gorgio thief.
There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?” “I would wish to die?” “You talk like a gorgio—which is the same as talking like a fool—were you a Romany chal you would talk wiser. Wish to die, indeed! A Romany chal would wish to live for ever!”
This did not mean, however, that the Romanys had descended to gorgio ways, or that they had wholly left off their attentions to "those". They combined the two.
‘Hey, brother, you don’t speak as you did—you don’t speak like a gorgio, you speak like one of us, you call me sister.’ ‘As you call me brother; I am not an uncivil person after all, sister.’ ‘I say, brother, tell me one thing, and look me in the face—there—do you speak Rommany?’ ‘Rommany! Rommany! what is Rommany?’
CODGER, which is common, is applied, as Gipsies use the term Gorgio, contemptuously, and it sounds still more like it. BOSH, signifying nothing, or in fact empty humbug, is generally credited to the Turkish language, but I can see no reason for going to the Turks for what the Gipsies at home already had, in all probability, from the same Persian source, or else from the Sanskrit.
It is likely, too, that the gorgio reader may have seen a cross drawn at the entrance of a road, the long part or stem of it pointing down that particular road, and he may have thought nothing of it, or have supposed that some sauntering individual like himself had made the mark with his stick: not so, courteous gorgio; ley tiro solloholomus opre lesti, you may take your oath upon it that it was drawn by a Gypsy finger, for that mark is another of the Rommany trails; there is no mistake in this.
He was not now of the Romany world, and he was not of the Gorgio world; but here at last was the old thing come back to him in a new way, and his bones rejoiced. He would entitle his daughter to her place among the Gorgios. Perhaps also it would be given him, in the name of the law, to deal with a man he hated. "We've got Mister Marchand now," said Jowett softly to the old chieftain.
It struck down a young Master Gorgio who in white beard and long grey hair went spying." She knew in her heart that he spoke the truth. "He is dead?" she asked in a voice that had a strange quietness. "Not yet," he answered. "There is time to wish him luck." She heard the ribald laugh with a sense of horror and loathing.
Where was then the most worthy descendant of a line of ancestral idiots Romany and Gorgio stretching back to the days when man's compeers, the mammoth and the cave-bear, could have taught him better? Rushing down to Raxton church to save her! to save her by laying a poor little trinket upon a dead man's breast!
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