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The Romany Rye
George Borrow
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“We have not much of the world, brother.”
“Very little indeed, Jasper. Did you not observe how the eyes of the whole congregation were turned towards our pew when the preacher said: ‘There are some people who lose their souls, and get nothing in exchange; who are outcast, despised, and miserable’? Now was not what he said quite applicable to the gypsies?”
“We are not miserable, brother.”
“Well, then, you ought to be, Jasper. Have you an inch of ground of your own? Are you of the least use? Are you not spoken ill of by everybody? What’s a gypsy?”
“What’s the bird noising yonder, brother?”
“The bird! oh, that’s the cuckoo tolling; but what has the cuckoo to do with the matter?”
“We’ll see, brother; what’s the cuckoo?”Read More
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Community Reviews
An interesting look at the England of the time. The bitterness of the ending chapters somewhat detracts from the rest, but the author is allowed to have his opinions. My fellow fans of "Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon would not be at all happy with his opinion of Sir Walter Scott, the Stuarts, the Jaco
You certainly need to have read Lavengro before this - the snag is, that Lavengro is extremely heavy going, whereas this is more conversational, he names characters rather more, and it is generally less obscure. I almost got interested in a woman he meets, Isopel Berners - but then she leaves abrupt
A lot this this would be hard to follow without reading Lavengro first to which it is a sequel. Tales of characters met on the roads of England in mid 19th century, at horse fairs, encampments and inns. Quite a lot of railing against characters of stagecoach drivers and catholic priests. Like Laveng