Ah! surely the Swimmin' Rei is in the room! I thought
I heard that choke come in his throat as comes when he frets about
Winnie. Howsomever, I s'pose it must ha' bin all a fancy o' mine.'
'You make _me_ laugh, Sinfi, about this golden hand of yours that is
stronger than the hand of Death,' said Cyril; 'and yet I wish from my
heart I could believe it.'
'My poor mammy used to say, "The Gorgios believes when they ought to
disbelieve, and they disbelieve when they ought to believe, and that
gives the Romanies a chance."'
'Sinfi Lovell,' said Wilderspin, 'that saying of your mother's
touches at the very root of romantic art.'
'Well, if Gorgios don't believe enough, Sinfi,--if there is not
enough superstition among certain Gorgio acquaintances of mine, it's
a pity,' said Cyril.
'I don't know what you are a-talkin' about with your romantic art an'
sich like, but I _do_ know that nothink can't go ag'in the
dukkeripen o' the clouds; but if I was on Snowdon with my crwth I
could soon tell for sartin whether she's alive or dead,' said Sinfi.
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