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Updated: June 11, 2025
At the highest ecstacy of speed, Sunday turned round on the splashboard where he stood, and sticking his great grinning head out of the cab, with white hair whistling in the wind, he made a horrible face at his pursuers, like some colossal urchin. Then raising his right hand swiftly, he flung a ball of paper in Syme's face and vanished.
Myself. Romanys are gipsies. The Man. We ain't gipsies. Myself. What are you then? The Man. We are hoppers. Then how did you understand all I have said to you about gipsies? Henrietta. I didn't. I again asked for my coat, but it was clear now that before offering to fight the florid-faced man with the mole over his left eyebrow I must have hung my coat upon the splashboard of his van.
My aunt climbed into the gig; I mounted the pony-carriage, the cripple took his seat deferentially by my side, and away we went on our respective journeys; certainly in a mode which we had little anticipated when we left the front door at Dangerfield Hall. My preserver sat half in and half out of the carriage, leaning his white, well-shaped hand upon the splashboard.
Brett rattled on in this way, heedless of his companion's blank amazement, perhaps secretly enjoying it. Hume was so taken aback that he stood poised on the step of the vehicle and forgot to slip the reins into the catch on the splashboard. "I told you none of these things," he cried. "Of course not. They are obvious. But tell this good lady that we are going to the Hall."
A passing priest doffed his cap, and a few urchins in grimy shirts shouted, "Gentleman, please give a poor orphan a trifle!" Presently the driver noticed that a sturdy young rascal was on the point of climbing onto the splashboard; wherefore he cracked his whip and the britchka leapt forward with increased speed over the cobblestones.
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