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And yet, he concluded, he "would put George Borrow above every other writer on the Gypsies. . . . He communicates a subtle insight into Gypsydom that is totally wanting in the works mainly philological of Pott, Liebich . . . and their confreres." Hindes Groome was speaking, too, from the point of view of a Romany student, not of a critic of human literature.

In a lovely dingle, skirted by a winding, willow-bordered river, and dotted here and there with clumps of hawthorn, were ranged the 'living-waggons' of those trading Romanies who had accompanied the 'Griengroes' to the East Anglian and Midland fairs. Alongside the waggons was a single large brown tent that for luxuriousness might have been the envy of all Gypsydom.

Did I hear His Majesty of Gypsydom aright? He leant against a tree, and gave utterance to peal after peal of laughter. I advanced with rapidly rising anger, but his hilarity had so overmastered him that he did not heed it. 'Wilderspin, cried he, 'come here! Pray come here.

To-day however, Maggie thought her misery had reached a pitch at which gypsydom was her refuge, and she rose from her seat on the roots of the tree with the sense that this was a great crisis in her life; she would run straight away till she came to Dunlow Common, where there would certainly be gypsies; and cruel Tom, and the rest of her relations who found fault with her, should never see her any more.

'Did I hear His Majesty of Gypsydom aright? he said, as soon as his hilarity allowed him to speak. 'Is the humble bed of a mere painter to be made for him by the representative of the proud Aylwins, the genteel Aylwins, the heir-presumptive Aylwins the most respectable branch of a most respectable family, which, alas! has its ungenteel, its bohemian, its vulgar offshoots?