He suggested even in his
personal appearance the typical Gypsy of the novel and the stage,
rather than the true Gypsy as he lives and moves. The Scollard was
well known to be half-crazed with a passion for Rhona Boswell, who
was _the fiancee_ of that cousin of mine, Percy Aylwin, before
mentioned. Percy was considered to be a hopelessly erratic character.
Much against the wish of his parents, he had been brought up as a
sailor; but on seeing Rhona Boswell he promptly fell in love with
her, and quitted the sea in order to be near her. And no man who ever
heard Rhona's laugh professed to wonder at Percy's infatuation. As a
Griengro her father, Jericho Boswell, who had no son, was said to
have owed his prosperity to Rhona's instinctive knowledge of
horseflesh.
While our guests, Romany and Gorgio, were doing justice to the trout,
Welsh brown bread and butter and jam which Videy had spread before
them, Sinfi went to the back of the camp to look at the ponies, and I
got into conversation with Rhona Boswell, whom I remembered so well
as a child.
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