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Isopel Berners

CHAPTER XXXII
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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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