It was to depict this phase of human emotion that both _Aylwin_
and its sequel, _The Coming of Love_, were written. They were
missives from the lonely watch-tower of the writer's soul, sent out
into the strange and busy battle of the world--sent out to find, if
possible, another soul or two to whom the watcher was, without
knowing it, akin.
And now as to my two Gypsy heroines, the Sinfi Lovell of
_Aylwin_ and the Rhona Boswell of _The Coming of Love_.
Although Borrow belonged to a different generation from mine, I
enjoyed his intimate friendship in his later years--during the time
when he lived in Hereford Square; and since his death I have written
a good deal about him--both in prose and in verse--in the Athenaeum,
in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and in other places. When, some seven
or eight years ago, I brought out an edition of _Lavengro_ (in
Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co.'s Minerva Library), I prefaced that
delightful book by a few desultory remarks upon Sorrow's Gypsy
characters. On that occasion I gave a slight sketch of the most
remarkable 'Romany Chi' that had ever been met with in the part of
East Anglia known to Borrow and myself--Sinfi Lovell.
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