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Borrow George. The Romany Rye
The Romany Rye
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
POISONING THE PORKER. BY MRS. CHIKNO
SONG OF THE BROKEN CHASTITY. BY URSULA
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
CHAPTER XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
CHAPTER XXXVI
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
THE JOCKEY’S SONG
CHAPTER XLIII
CHAPTER XLIV
CHAPTER XLV
CHAPTER XLVI
CHAPTER XLVII
APPENDIX
CHAPTER I—A Word for Lavengro
CHAPTER II—On Priestcraft
CHAPTER III—On Foreign Nonsense
CHAPTER IV—On Gentility Nonsense—Illustrations of Gentility
CHAPTER V—Subject of Gentility continued
CHAPTER VI—On Scotch Gentility-Nonsense—Charlie o’er the Waterism
CHAPTER VII—Same Subject continued
CHAPTER VIII—On Canting Nonsense
CHAPTER IX—Pseudo-Critics
CHAPTER X—Pseudo-Radicals
CHAPTER XI—The Old Radical
Footnotes
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George Borrow
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“If I did, it was merely casually, by way of illustration. I was saying how frequently cunning people were mistaken in their calculations, and I adduced the case of old Fraser, of Lovat, as one in point; I brought forward his name, because I was well acquainted with his history, from having compiled and inserted it in a wonderful work, which I edited some months ago, entitled ‘Newgate Lives and Trials,’ but without the slightest idea that it was the name of him who was sitting with us; he, however, thought that I was aware of his name. Belle! Belle! for a long time I doubted the truth of Scripture, owing to certain conceited individuals, but now I begin to believe firmly; what wonderful texts are in Scripture, Belle; ‘The wicked trembleth where—where—’”
