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And then she looked as if she was tempted to reveal some secret that she was bound not to tell. 'Sinfi's been very bad, she went on, 'but she's better now. Her daddy says she's under a cuss. She's been a-wastin' away like, but she's better now. 'So it's Sinfi who is under a curse now, I said to myself. 'I suppose Superstition has at last turned her brain.
There ain't a-many things made o' flesh and blood as can make Sinfi Lovell show the white feather; but I know you'll think the wuss o' me arter this, Hal. But while the pictur were a-showin' I heard my dear mammy's whisper: "Little Sinfi, little Sinfi, beware o' Gorgios! This is the one." By the time we reached the encampment it was quite dark.
And as to reading, I am not sure that the satirical Videy was entirely wrong in saying that Sinfi believed that books 'could talk jis' like men and women. Not a word would she speak, save when she now and then bent down her head to whisper to Pharaoh when that little warrior was inclined to give a disturbing chuckle, or to shake his wattles.
Rhona, however, instead of joining Videy in the prayer for backsheesh, ran down the path in the footsteps of Sinfi. What money I had about me I was carrying loose in my waistcoat pocket, and I pulled it out, gold and silver together. I gave her the half-sovereign, when she immediately pointed to a half-crown in my hand, and said, 'Give the poor Gypsy the posh-courna, my rei.
'How could you have suspicions of poor Sinfi? I said, for I was becoming alarmed at the way in which these inquiries were absorbing Winnie's mind. 'It is, I know, Henry, a peculiarity of my nature to be extremely confiding until I have once been deceived, and then to be just as suspicious. Kind as Mr. D'Arcy has been to me, I began to feel restless in his haven of refuge.
But while I spoke I thought I observed her looking at the breakfast provided by Sinfi with something like the same wistful expression that was on her face on that morning forgotten by her but remembered by me so well, when she breakfasted so heartily on the same spot. 'Winnie, I said, 'this mountain air has given me a voracious appetite.
Better let 'er alone; she bites when she's in 'er tantrums. 'We's friends o' hern, said Sinfi, whose appearance and decisive voice seemed to reassure the girl. 'Oh, if you're friends that's different, said she. 'Meg's gone off 'er 'ead; thinks the p'leace in plain clothes are after 'er. We went up the stairs. The girl followed us.
'But, Lady Sinfi, my Helen of Little Egypt, said Cyril, 'suppose that in my encounter with my patrician cousin an encounter which would have been entirely got up in honour of you suppose it had happened that I had made your brother's bed for him? 'You make his bed! exclaimed Sinfi, laughing.
But I had few purchasers till Providence sent me a good man and great gentleman, my dear friend 'This is a long-winded speech of yours, mon cher, yawned Cyril. 'Lady Sinfi is going to strike up with the Welsh riddle unless you get along faster.
They were looking straight at me, those beloved eyes they were sparkling with childish happiness as they had sparkled through the vapours of the pool when she walked towards me that morning on the brink of Knockers' Llyn. Starting up and throwing up my arms, I cried, 'My darling! The vision vanished. Then turning round, I looked at Sinfi.
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