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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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