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Updated: September 23, 2025
Borrow was an impressionist, and he has probably succeeded far better in giving a faithful picture of Isopel Berners than if he had been photographically accurate in his measurements.
Comforted in some degree by these hopeful imaginings, I retired to my tent, and went to sleep. Gloomy Forebodings The Postman's Mother The Letter Bears and Barons The Best of Advice. Nothing occurred to me of any particular moment during the following day. Isopel Berners did not return; but Mr. Petulengro and his companions came home from the fair early in the morning.
"However, young man," she continued, dropping her tone, which she had slightly raised, "I believe what you said, that you were merely talking about gypsy matters, and also what you were going to say, if it was, as I suppose, that she and you had no particular acquaintance." Isopel was now silent for some time.
Near the mouth of the dingle Mumpers' Dingle, near Wittenhall, Staffordshire where my friend Isopel Berners and I, the travelling tinker, were encamped side by side, a rather numerous body of my ancient friends and allies occupied the ground. About five yards on the right, Mr.
And now I have given a very fair account of the manner in which Isopel Berners and myself passed our time in the dingle. Amongst other excursions, I went several times to the public-house to which I introduced the reader in a former chapter.
“As to the remarkable character introduced into ‘Lavengro’ and ‘Romany Rye’ under the name of Isopel Berners, I have no light from the MSS. of George Borrow, save the following fragment, which perhaps I ought to have suppressed. I am sorry if it dispel any illusions:— I have heard that King Pharaoh had two, if not more.
'Well, then, here it is, and much good may it do you; as for my name, I got it from my mother. 'Your mother's name, then, was Isopel! 'Isopel Berners. 'But had you never a father? 'Yes, I had a father, said the girl, sighing, 'but I don't bear his name. 'Is it the fashion, then, in your country for children to bear their mother's name?
Isopel stayed with Borrow after the defeat of the Tinman, and their companionship in the dingle fills a very large part of "Lavengro" and "The Romany Rye," with interruptions and diversions from the Man in Black, the gin-drinking priest, who was then at work undermining the Protestantism of old England.
So when folks are disposed to ill- treat you, young man, say, 'Lord have mercy upon me! and then tip them to Long Melford, which, as the saying goes, there is nothing comparable for shortness all the world over; and these last words, young man, are the last you will ever have from her who is nevertheless, "Your affectionate female servant, "ISOPEL BERNERS."
The couple presently departed, cursing me and the young woman, who remained behind in the little camp, and, as I was in an exhausted state, offered to make tea by the camp fire. While we were taking the repast, she told me the story of her life. Her name was Isopel Berners, and though she believed that she had come of a good stock, she was born in a workhouse.
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