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Well, brother, out of consideration for the civil gentry with whom the fellow had come, I held my peace for a long time, and in order to get the subject changed, I said to Mikailia in Romany, You have told the ladies their fortunes, now tell the gentlemen theirs, quick, quick, pen lende dukkerin.
He flung the flap of the tent door across the opening, shutting out the camp-fires and the people. "Here now come. Be mine while they sing." For one swift moment the great passion and eloquence of the man lifted her off her feet; for one instant the Romany in her triumphed, and a thrill of passion passed through her, storming her senses, like a mist shutting out all the rest of the world.
But I wished no gold from her. Romany speaking, I should like to poison her. I love you, and " "Have done with this nonsense, Chaldea. Talk like that and out you go. I can see from what you admit, that you have been making mischief." "That's as true as my father," laughed the gypsy viciously. "And glad am I to say the word, my boro rye.
It had found freedom and light; what the Romany folk call its own 'tan', its home, though it be but home of each day's trek. That wild spirit was now a force which understood itself in a new if uncompleted way. It was a sword free from its scabbard. The adventure of the Carillon Rapids had been a kind of deliverance of an unborn thing which, desiring the overworld, had found it.
Still, the Romany blood pulses quickly, and when it flies to the swarthy cheek and sets the eyes flashing, the time has come for someone to beware. The writer has seen something of the gipsy’s skill and adroitness under such conditions, and the impression made was a lasting one.
You belong to that which is for the ignorant, or the low, the vicious and the bad. Behind the free life of the Romany is only the thing that the beasts of the field have. I have done with it for ever. Find a Romany who will marry you. As for me, I would rather die than do so, and I should die before it could come to pass. If you stay here longer I will call the Ry."
All through the summer day he walked, his Romany blood singing in his veins at the feel of the turf beneath his feet, and evening found him strolling contentedly through the village to his billet. Suddenly a sentry challenged: "'Alt! who goes there?" "Downshires," came the reply. "Well, what the 'ell are you doin' of 'ere?" "I be going back to my regiment." "Well, your regiment's in the trenches.
She sighed and shivered a little. "He died in Auvergne three months after you saw him." "And you?" He waved a hand towards the menagerie. "It is a long story," she answered, not meeting his eyes. "I hated the Romany life. I became an artist's model; sickened of that," her voice went quickly here, "joined a travelling menagerie, and became what I am. That in brief."
It was you who betrayed him to the mob, and " "Wait, wait," Fleda cried in agitation. "Is is he dead?" "He is alive, but terribly hurt; and he may die," was the reply. Then the old man turned to the Romany with a great anger and determination in his face. He stretched out an arm, making a sign as cabalistic as that which Fleda had used against her invisible foe in the bedroom.
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.
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