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"I took it for truth, sister!" said Kara, looking at her searchingly. Chaldea nodded wearily. "I am a great witch, as you can see." "You will be my romi when the gold chinks in our pockets?" "Yes, for certain, brother. It's a true fortune!" "Before our camp is changed, sister?" persisted the man greedily. "No; for to-morrow we may take the road, since the great lord orders us off his land.
Should he return from the land of the Corahai at the end of a hundred years, and should find me alive, and should say, I am hungry, little wife, go forth and steal or tell bahi, I must do it, for he is the rom and I the romi."
'My opinion of death, brother, is much the same as that in the old song of Pharaoh, which I have heard my grandam sing: "Cana marel o manus chivios ande puv, Ta rovel pa leste o chavo ta romi." When a man dies, he is cast into the earth, and his wife and child sorrow over him.
They are possibly transposed from Lurka a youth and lurki a girl, such transpositions being common among the lowest classes in India. RUMMY or RUMY, as applied to women, is simply the Gipsy word romi, a contraction of romni, a wife; the husband being her rom.
Hai! it is so, and I love you for the boldness, my Gorgious one." "It is absolutely false," cried Lambert, echoing Agnes. "True! true! and twice times true. May I go crazy, Meg, if it isn't. You wanted the raclan as your romi, and so plotted my brother's death. But your sweet one will go before the Poknees, and with irons on her wrists, and a rope round her "
Then she hung her cloak on her back, and led her to the door, which she fastened with a wooden bar. As soon as we were alone she began to laugh and caper like a lunatic, singing out, 'You are my rom, I'm your romi. * Sugared yolks of eggs. A sort of nougat.
Chaldea nodded with a triumphant smile. "Avali! And why not? You have no right to love another man's romi." "I do not love her," began Lambert, and then checked himself, as he really could not discuss so delicate a matter with this wildcat. "Why did you listen, may I ask?" he demanded, passing his tongue over his dry lips. "Because I love you, and love is jealous."
"The child. What child?" "Chaldea, no less. She's raging mad, as the golden rye has made you his romi, my sweet one, and she has set many besides Kara to overlook you." "So Mr. Lambert and I thought. And Chaldea's reason?" "She would make trouble," replied Mother Cockleshell mysteriously.
However that may be, a street called Calle del Candilejo still exists in Seville, and in that street there is a bust which is said to be a portrait of Don Pedro. This bust, unfortunately, is a modern production. During the seventeenth century the old one had become very much defaced, and the municipality had it replaced by that now to be seen. Rom, husband. Romi, wife.
'My opinion of death, brother, is much the same as that in the old song of Pharaoh, which I have heard my grandam sing Cana marel o manus chivios ande puv, Ta rovel pa leste o chavo ta romi. When a man dies, he is cast into the earth, and his wife and child sorrow over him.
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