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There's a better man than he close by; let him get on his back and leap him. 'You mean yourself, I suppose, said the landlord. 'Well, I call that talking modestly, and nothing becomes a young man more than modesty. 'It a'n't I, daddy, said Mr. Petulengro. 'Here's the man, said he, pointing to Tawno. 'Here's the horse-leaper of the world! 'You mean the horse-back breaker, said the landlord.
'Perhaps it's Scotch also for that? 'What do ye mean by speaking in that guise to a gentleman? said he; 'you insolent vagabond, without a name or a country. 'There you are mistaken, said I; 'my country is Egypt, but we 'Gyptians, like you Scotch, are rather fond of travelling; and as for name my name is Jasper Petulengro, perhaps you have a better; what is it? 'Sandy Macraw. At that, brother, the gentlemen burst into a roar of laughter, and all the ladies tittered."
"I can't hear you, Mr. Petulengro," said I; for the thunder drowned the words which he appeared to be uttering. "Dearginni," I heard Mr. Petulengro say, "it thundereth. I was asking, brother, whether you believe in dukkeripens?" "I do not, Mr. Petulengro; but this is strange weather to be asking me whether I believe in fortunes." "Grondinni," said Mr. Petulengro, "it haileth.
Petulengro; 'that is, if the look comes from a woman: not that I am disposed to doubt that this female gentlewoman is able to knock him down either one way or the other. I have heard of her often enough, and have seen her once or twice, though not so near as now.
With the sharp end of this he was making holes in the earth at about twenty inches distance from each other, into which he inserted certain long rods with a considerable bend towards the top, which constituted the timbers of the tent and the supporters of the canvas. Mrs. Petulengro and a female with a crutch in her hand, whom I recognised as Mrs. Chikno, sat near him on the ground.
Petulengro did not proceed with his narration, neither did he proceed upon his way; he had stopped his horse, and his eyes were intently fixed on a broad strip of grass beneath some lofty trees, on the left side of the road. It was a pleasant enough spot, and seemed to invite wayfaring people, such as we were, to rest from the fatigues of the road, and the heat and vehemence of the sun.
I tell you what, my gry, whilst you continue with me, you shall both be better shod and better fed than you were with your last master.’ I am in the dingle making a petul; and I must here observe that whilst I am making a horse-shoe the reader need not be surprised if I speak occasionally in the language of the lord of the horse-shoe—Mr. Petulengro.
Petulengro and Tawno Chikno came originally from India. I think I'll go there." This is his way of giving impressiveness to the "veiled period" of the following seven or eight years, for the benefit of those who had read "The Zincali" and "The Bible in Spain," and had been allured by the hints of earlier travel.
Petulengro, who, before I entered, turned round, and, with a significant nod, advised me to take care how I behaved.
He proves also from newspapers of 1820 that the fight, in the twenty sixth chapter of "Lavengro," ended in a thunderstorm like that described by Borrow and used by Petulengro to forecast the violent end of Thurtell. Now a brute memory like that, which cannot be gainsaid, is not an entirely good servant to a man who will not put down everything he can, like a boy at an examination.
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