Indeed at that moment I felt an alien among
Gorgios.
'I am now one of the Lovells,' I said, 'and I shall go with you.'
'We part company to-night, brother, fare ye well,' she said.
As she stood delivering this speech--her head erect, her eyes
flashing angrily at me, her brown fists tightly clenched, I knew that
further resistance would be futile.
'But now I wants to be left alone,' she said.
She bent her head forward in a listening attitude, and I heard her
murmur, 'I knowed it 'ud come ag'in. A Romany sperrit likes to come
up in the evenin' and smell the heather an' see the shinin' stars
come out.'
While she was speaking, she began to move off between the trees. But
she turned, took hold of both my hands, and gazed into my eyes. Then
she moved away again, and I was beginning to follow her. She turned
and said: 'Don't follow me. There ain't no place for ye among the
Romanies. Go the ways o' the Gorgios, Hal Aylwin, an' let Sinfi
Lovell go hern.'
As I leaned against a tree and watched Sinfi striding through the
grass till she passed out of sight, the entire panorama of my life
passed before me.
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