The Romany Rye

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A speaker in the opening chapter of The Romany Rye wakes at the first break of day, leaves the postillion fast asleep and steps out of the tent. When asked whether he will declare his name, a man in black answers that he will never do so and that no one in England knows it but himself. A man in black says that, should the other enlist with us, he could find him an occupation not only agreeable, but one in which his talents would have free scope.

A person universally respected, both for his skill in his profession and his general demeanour, is said to have spoken well and eloquently in the speaker's behalf. A passage says that had Lavengro, instead of being the work of an independent mind, been written in order to further any of the thousand and one cants, and species of nonsense prevalent in England, the author would have heard much less about its not being true.

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George Borrow

George Borrow was an English writer, translator, linguist, and traveler whose books draw on encounters across Britain and continental Europe. John Murray issued Lavengro in 1851; it blends autobiography and fiction as its wandering narrator moves through barrack towns, London literary work, and meetings with Romani communities.