If he has neither wife nor child, then his father and mother, I suppose; and if he is quite alone in the world, why, then, he is cast into the earth, and there is an end of the matter.' {picture:'There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.': page171.jpg} 'And do you think that is the end of a man ?' 'There's an end of him, brother, more's the pity.' 'Why do you say so ?' 'Life is sweet, brother.' 'Do you think so ?' 'Think so!--There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die ?' 'I would wish to die--' 'You talk like a gorgio--which is the same as talking like a fool--were you a Rommany Chal you would talk wiser.

Wish to die, indeed!--A Rommany Chal would wish to live for ever!' 'In sickness, Jasper ?' 'There's the sun and stars, brother.' 'In blindness, Jasper ?' 'There's the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever.

Dosta, we'll now go to the tents and put on the gloves; and I'll try to make you feel what a sweet thing it is to be alive, brother!'.