[Isopel Berners by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookIsopel Berners CHAPTER XXVII 8/12
." "I want to hear no dukkerin, Ursula, in connection with Isopel Berners. Moreover, it is Sunday, we will change the subject; it is surprising to me that, after all you have undergone, you should still look so beautiful.
I suppose you do not think of marrying again, Ursula ?" "No, brother, one husband at a time is quite enough for any reasonable mort; especially such a good husband as I have got." "Such a good husband! why, I thought you told me your husband was drowned ?" "Yes, brother, my first husband was." "And have you a second ?" "To be sure, brother." "And who is he, in the name of wonder ?" "Who is he? why Sylvester, to be sure." "I do assure you, Ursula, that I feel disposed to be angry with you; such a handsome young woman as yourself to take up with such a nasty pepper- faced good-for-nothing.
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." "I won't hear my husband abused, brother; so you had better say no more." "Why, is he not the Lazarus of the gypsies? has he a penny of his own, Ursula ?" "Then the more his want, brother, of a clever chi like me to take care of him and his childer.
I tell you what, brother, I will chore, {318} if necessary, and tell dukkerin for Sylvester, if even so heavy as scarcely to be able to stand.
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