It isn't every man who could do that.

But I suppose you could," he continued, looking at me admiringly.

"You know all the ways of the Gorgios, an' could talk to ladies, an' are up to high life; ah, you could make no end of money.

Why don't you do it ?" Innocent Gipsy! was this thy idea of qualification for a seer and a reader of dark lore?
What wouldst thou say could I pour into thy brain the contents of the scores of works on "occult nonsense," from Agrippa to Zadkiel, devoured with keen hunger in the days of my youth?
Yes, in solemn sadness, out of the whole I have brought no powers of divination; and in it all found nothing so strange as the wondrous tongue in which we spoke.

In this mystery called Life many ways have been proposed to me of alleviating its expenses; as, for instance, when the old professor earnestly commended that we two should obtain (I trust honestly) a donkey and a _rinkni juva_, who by telling fortunes should entirely contribute to our maintenance, and so wander cost-free, and _kost-frei_ over merrie England.