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They are darker than the sátoros czijányok, or tented Gypsies. Sinfi heard much talk among the Hungarians of the splendours of the early leaders of the continental Romanies. She was told of Romany kings, dukes, and counts. She accepted, with that entire faith which characterised her, the stories of the exploits of Duke Michael, Duke Andreas, Duke Panuel, and the rest.
It was not till too late that I learnt the appalling truth, that while the babes had been nourished, the mother had starved starved! On a few ounces of bread a day no woman can work the Oliver and prod the fire. Her last whispers to me were, "I shall see you, dear, a great painter yet; Jesus will let me look down and watch my boy." Ah, Sinfi Lovell! that makes you weep.
'Same place, twix Bettws and Capel Curig. She had been to the bungalow, she told me, with a message from Sinfi. This message was that she particularly wished to meet me at Mrs. Davies's cottage 'not at the bungalow' on the following night. 'She'll go there to-morrow mornin', said Rhona, 'and make things tidy for you; but she won't expect you till night, same time as she met you there fust.
'Good-night, Sinfi, I said, shaking her hand; 'and now, Videy, I will show you your room. 'Oh, but Videy an' me sleeps togither, don't we? 'Certainly, if you wish it, I replied. 'She's afeard o' the "mullos," said Videy scornfully, as she went and stood before an old engraved Venetian mirror I had picked up at Chester, admiring her own perfect little figure reflected therein.
Panuel Lovell and some of the Boswells were not unfrequently in the neighbourhood, and they were always accompanied by Sinfi and Videy. On a certain occasion, when I learnt that the Lovells were in the neighbourhood, I sought them out. Sinfi at first was extremely shy, or distant, or proud, or scared, and it was not till after one or two interviews that she relaxed.
It is said to be the wail of a Sir John Wynn, of Gwydir, whose spirit is under a curse, and is imprisoned at the bottom of the falls on account of his cruelty and misdeeds on earth. On those rare nights when the full moon shines down the chasm, the wail becomes an agonised shriek. Once on a bright moonlight night Sinfi and I went to see these falls.
Winnie seemed to have slackened her pace when she was out of sight, for we saw her just turning away on the right at the point indicated by Sinfi. 'Give her time to get along that path, said she, 'and then she'll be all right. In a state of agonised suspense I stood there waiting. At last I said: 'I must go after her. We shall lose her I know we shall lose her.
'Whoever has committed this dreadful crime against God and man will rue the day he was born: the curse of a dead man who has been really wronged no penance or prayer can cure, so my aunt in Wales used to say, and so Sinfi says; it clings to the wrongdoer and to his children. That cry I heard was the voice of vengeance, and it came from your father's tomb.
I knew that the tribe of Gypsies with whom she had been thrown into contact, the Lovells and the Boswells, though superior to the rest, of the Romany race, are the most superstitious of all, and that Winifred had become an object of strong affection to the most superstitious even among that tribe, one Sinfi Lovell.
You ought to know me better by this time than to think that I would really insult you. 'How you would ha' went down afore the Swimmin' Rei! replied Sinfi regretfully. Between my new companion, Wilderspin, and myself there was an awkward silence for some time. He was evidently in a brown study. I had ample opportunity for examining his face.
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