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They had come back to their old camping-ground, rather dissatisfied with the squire. 'Speak to him yourself, Kiomi, said I; 'whatever you ask for, he can't refuse anything to such eyes as yours. 'You! she rallied me; 'why can't you talk sensible stuff! She had grown a superb savage, proof against weather and compliments. Her face was like an Egyptian sky fronting night.
She talked of her aunt Kiomi affectionately, for a gipsy girl, whose modulated tones are all addressed to the soft public. Eveleen spoke with the pride of bated breath of the ferocious unforgivingness of their men. Perhaps if she had known that I traced the good repute of the tribes for purity to the sweeter instincts of the women, she would have eulogized her sex to amuse me.
Eveleen and the old mother had searched for me upon the heath, and having haled me head and foot to their tent, despatched a message to bring Kiomi down from London to aid them in their desperate shift. They knew Squire Beltham's temper. He would have scattered the tribe to the shores of the kingdom at a rumour of foul play to his grandson.
Goodbye I shan't say good-bye twice, she answered my attempt to keep her, and passed into the tent, out of which she brought a small bundle tied in a yellow handkerchief, and walked away, without nodding or speaking. 'What was that you said to Kiomi? I questioned Eveleen, who was quickly beside me.
The grin that goes for a laugh among gipsies followed my question of how Kiomi had managed to smuggle me. Eveleen was my informant when the dreaded Kiomi happened to be off duty for a minute.
The grin that goes for a laugh among gipsies followed my question of how Kiomi had managed to smuggle me. Eveleen was my informant when the dreaded Kiomi happened to be off duty for a minute.
My sensations on seeing Kiomi beg of a gentleman were remarkable. I reproached her. She showed me sixpence shining in the palm of her hand. I gave her a shilling to keep her from it. She had now got one and sixpence, she said: meaning, I supposed upon reflection, that her begging had produced that sum, and therefore it was a good thing.
The other and younger girl sung out: 'I found you. Kiomi sent a volley at her. 'I did, said the girl; 'yes, and I nursed you first, I did; and mother doctored you. Kiomi hasn't been here a day. The old mother came out of the tent. She felt my pulse, and forthwith squatted in front of me. 'You're hard to kill, and oily as a bean, said she.
'Don't talk of creatures you met when you were a beggar, Harry Richmond, she said. 'I never was a beggar, I replied. 'Then she was a beggar, said Janet; and I could not deny it; though the only difference I saw between Janet and Kiomi was, that Janet continually begged favours and gifts of people she knew, and Kiomi of people who were strangers.
Sleep was no more than the passage through the arch of a canal. Kiomi and I were on the heath before sunrise, jumping gravel-pits, chasing sandpipers, mimicking pewits; it seemed to me I had only just heard the last of Osric's fiddle when yellow colour filled in along the sky over Riversley.
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