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He had a finely moulded head and thick white hair--white from his youth; his brown eyes were soft, yet piercing; his mouth had a generous curve--his nose was somewhat of the Semitic type, which gave his face the cast of a young Memnon." This is confirmed by the assurance in _Lavengro_ that a famous heroic painter was extremely anxious to secure Don Jorge as a model for the face and figure of Pharaoh! {52} "I am not cunning.
If people think I am it is because, being made up of art themselves, simplicity of character is a puzzle to them."-- _Romany Rye_, chap.
xi. {61} _Gypsy lad_. {62} _Blacksmith_. {63a} _Tell fortunes_. {63b} Hill Tower: _i.e_.
Norwich. {63c} _Farewell_. {64} _Blacksmith_. {65a} _Smith_. {65b} The "Wayland Smith" referred to in _Kenilworth_. {67a} _Horse_. {67b} _Horseshoe_. {67c} _Striking_. {69a} _Horse_. {69b} _Knife_. {69c} _Hoof_. {69d} _Horseshoe nail_. {69e} _Great file_. {69f} _Tool box_. {71} _Poison_. {82} _Gipsy chap_. {84a} _Going to the village one day_. {84b} _Road my gypsy lass_. {86} Mort, _i.e_., woman, concubine, a cant term. {87} _Again_. {90a} _Old man_. {90b} _Wretch_, _hussy_. {91} An old word for knife, used by Urquhart and also by Burns. {93a} _Carcase_. {93b} _Knife_. {94a} _Donkey_. {94b} _Lad_. {106} The main characters in _Lavengro_ are three: the scholar (Borrow himself), the gypsy (Mr.Petulengro), and the priest, or popish propagandist.
This last is the man in black.
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