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Unhappily for the Flaming Tinman and for Isopel Berners, the word-master refused this singular offer. {118} A passado at Belle's avowed weakness for that beverage. {125a} _A strange listens_. {125b} _Up yonder_. {153} The Catholic controversy was just at its height in 1825, and the Catholic Emancipation Bill received the Royal Assent in April 1829. {156} The doctrine of economy in a nutshell. {159} For Borrow's final verdict on Sir Walter Scott, it is only fair to cite his _Romano Lavo-Lil_, a book on the English Gypsy Language, corresponding to his book on the _Zincali_ or Spanish Gypsies, but published more than forty years later, namely in 1874.
Here he relates how he once trudged to Dryburgh "to pay my respects at the tomb of Sir Walter Scott, a man with whose principles I have no sympathy, but for whose genius I have always entertained the most intense admiration." {218} The story of Mumbo Jumbo and the English servant in Rome is that narrated at great length by the postillion in the last chapter of _Lavengro_. {227} See the third Appendix to _Romany Rye_ on this subject of "Foreign Nonsense." For Wolseley's perversion see _Dict.Nat.Biog_., lxii., p. 323. {230} A blasphemous work by Albizzi.
French version printed, Geneva, 1556. {237} His deeds were not those of lions, but of foxes. {238a} "Archibald Arbuthnot: Life, Adventures, and Vicissitudes of Simon [Fraser] Lord Lovat." London, 1746, 12mo. {238b} For later news of the red-haired Jack-priest and his dupe, Parson Platitude, see _Romany Rye_, chap.
xxvii. {242} Plenty of gypsy lads; chals and chies, lads and lasses. {244a} _Modest_. {244b} _Gentlemen and ladies_. {244c} Drop it. {247} The Petulengres, a wandering clan of gypsies, led by Jasper Petulengro and his wife Pakomovna are introduced to us in _Lavengro_ (chaps, v.
and liv.).
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