The Romany Rye by George Henry Borrow
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look so beautiful. I suppose you do not think of marrying again,
Ursula?" "No, brother, one husband at a time is quite enough for any reasonable mort; especially such a good husband as I have got." "Such a good husband! why, I thought you told me your husband was drowned?" "Yes, brother, my first husband was." "And have you a second?" "To be sure, brother." "And who is he? in the name of wonder." "Who is he? why Sylvester, to be sure." "I do assure you, Ursula, that I feel disposed to be angry with you; such a handsome young woman as yourself to take up with such a nasty pepper-faced good for nothing--" "I won't hear my husband abused, brother; so you had better say no more." "Why, is he not the Lazarus of the gypsies? has he a penny of his own, Ursula?" "Then the more his want, brother, of a clever chi like me to take |
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