[The Trespasser Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Trespasser Complete CHAPTER XII 5/16
"I'm never wholly of it.
I either want to do as they did when George Villiers had his innings, or play the gipsy as I did so many years." The gipsy! As he held the papers in his hand he thought as he had done last night, of the gipsy-van on Ridley Common, and of--how well he remembered her name!--of Andree. He suddenly threw his head back, and laughed.
"Well, well, but it is droll! Last night, an English gentleman, an honourable member with the Treasury Bench in view; this morning an adventurer, a Romany.
I itch for change.
And why? Why? I have it all, yet I could pitch it away this moment for a wild night on the slope, or a nigger hunt on the Rivas. Chateau-Leoville, Goulet, and Havanas at a bob ?--Jove, I thirst for a swig of raw Bourbon and the bite of a penny Mexican! Games, Gaston, games! Why the devil did little Joe worry at being made 'move on'? I've got 'move on' in every pore: I'm the Wandering Jew.
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