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Updated: June 21, 2025
Nearly all the male Romanies are possessed of a lithe, sinewy, active frame, combined with a quickness of hand and eye that gives them a considerable advantage over less alert antagonists of heavier build. They are not, as a rule, in a hurry to come to blows, for they know that in the event of injury or police-court proceedings resulting from an encounter, prejudice is strongly against the gipsy.
'Why, look at his neck, said Sinfi, turning down my neckerchief; 'is that sunburn, or is it Romany brown, I should like to know? 'I assure you, said the speaker, still addressing her in the same grave, measured voice, 'that the Romanies have no idea what a little soap can do with the Romany brown. I know what you fine Gorgios do say, you're allus a-tellin' lies about us Romanies.
Many ethnologists believe India to have been the original abiding place of the now widely scattered Romanies; certain it is that no country and no clime would be so well adapted to their shiftless habits and wandering tent-life as India.
'Why not, Sinfi? 'Because my mammy used to say it ain't right to make use o' the real dukkerin' for Gorgios, and I've heerd her say that if them as had the real dukkerin' the dukkerin' for the Romanies used it for the Gorgios, or if they turned it into a sport and a plaything, it 'ud leave 'em altogether. 'The Romany Sap?
Out of the shadow of the past there would come to him, not only the swarthy Romanies, but Francis Ardrey, the friend of his youth; the Armenian merchant, with whom Lavengro discussed Haik; the victim of the evil chance, who talked nonsense about the star Jupiter and told him that “touching” story of his fight against destiny; the Rev. Mr.
The method is not commendable, but the object that prompts it is highly praiseworthy—from a Romany point of view. But to-day the old race of genuine Romanies is fast dying out, and soon we shall have wholly lost the traces of a people who for many centuries have constituted a familiar feature of English country life.
'I've bin a-followin' on you all the way, brother, said Sinfi, as we moved out of the cemetery, 'for your looks skeared me a bit. Let's go away from this place. 'But whither, Sinfi? I have no friend but you; I have no home. 'No home, brother? It's the Romanies, brother, as 'ain't got no home 'cept the sky an' the wind.
And perhaps some trader's tale, told when the caravan halted for the night, kindled the youth's first desire to penetrate the mountain-guarded wilderness, for the tales of these Romanies of commerce were as the very badge of their free-masonry, and entry money at the doors of strangers.
Then I said, as we sat down upon a green hillock within the Ring: 'Sinfi, the baskets my aunt saw in Winnie's hand when she was standing in the rain were of the very kind that Videy makes. 'Oh, that's what you wanted to say! said she; 'you think Videy knows something about Winnie. But that's all a fancy o' yourn, and it's of no use looking for Winnie any more among the Romanies.
Even supposin' you did hear the Welsh gillie and I think it was all a fancy you can't make nothin' out o' them baskets as your aunt seed. Us Romanies don't make one in a hundud of the fancy baskets as is sold for Gypsy baskets in the streets, and besides, the hawkers and costers what buys 'em of us sells 'em agin to other hawkers and costers, and there ain't no tracin' on 'em.
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