e; folks calls me
high-minded, and perhaps I have reason to be so; before I married Pharaoh
I had an offer from a lord--I likes the young rye, and, if he chooses to
follow us, he shall have my sister. What say you, mother? should not the
young rye have my sister Ursula?"

"I am going to my people," said Mrs. Herne, placing a bundle upon a
donkey, which was her own peculiar property; "I am going to Yorkshire,
for I can stand this no longer. You say you like him; in that we
differs: I hates the gorgio, and would like, speaking Romanly, to mix a
little poison with his waters. And now go to Lundra, my children, I goes
to Yorkshire. Take my blessing with ye, and a little bit of a gillie to
cheer your hearts with when ye are weary. In all kinds of weather have
we lived together; but now we are parted, I goes broken-hearted. I can't
keep you company; ye are no longer Rommany. To gain a bad brother, ye
have lost a good mother."

CHAPTER XVIII.

So the gypsies departed: Mrs. Herne to Yorkshire, and the rest to London.
As for myself, I continued in the house of my parents, passing my time in
much the same manner as I have already described, principally in
philological pursuits. But I was now sixteen, and it was highly
necessary that I should adopt some profession, unless I intended to
fritter away my existence, and to be a useless burden to those who had
given me birth. But what profession was I to choose? there being none in
the wide world perhaps for which I was suited; nor was there any one for
which I felt any decided inclination, though perhaps there existed within
me a lurking penchant for the profession of arms, which was natural
enough, as, from my earliest infancy, I had been accustomed to military
sights and sounds; but this profession was then closed, as I have already
hinted, and, as I believe, it has since continued, to those who, like
myself, had no better claims to urge than the services of a father.

My father, who, for certain reasons of his own, had no very high opinion
of the advantages resulting from this career, would have gladly seen me
enter the Church. His desire was, however, considerably abated by one or
two passages of my life, which occurred to his recollection. He
particularly dwelt on the unheard-of manner in which I had picked up the
Irish language, and drew from thence the conclusion that I was not fitted
by nature to cut a respectable figure at an English university. "He will