From the banter of the man of learning the queen of the dingle sought refuge in a precipitate flight.
Almost simultaneously the word-master, albeit with reluctance, decided that it was high time to give over his "mocking and scoffing." When he returned with this resolve to the dingle, Isopel Berners had quitted it, never to return.
Yet ever and anon that splendid and pathetic figure will cross the sky line of his mental vision--and of ours.

"Then the image of Isopel Berners came into my mind," and the thought "how I had lost her for ever, and how happy I might have been with her in the New World." DWELLERS IN THE DINGLE, AND SOME OTHERS.
MEN.
LAVENGRO, _the autobiographer_, _scholar and philologist_ (Lavengro=_word- master_); _known among the road-faring folk as the Romany rye_, _or young squire turned gypsy_.
JASPER PETULENGRO, _a Romany kral or tribal chief_, _horse-dealer and blacksmith_ (petulengro=_lord of the horseshoe_).

"_The Gypsy_." FRASER, _a popish emissary or propagandist_, _known as the_ "_man in black_." "_The Priest_." TAWNO CHIKNO, _the little one_, _so called on account of his immense size_; _the_ "_Antinous of the dusky people_;" _a great horseman and_ JASPER'S _brother-in-law_.
SYLVESTER, _another brother-in-law_, _an ill-conditioned fellow_, "_the Lazarus of the Romany tribe_." BLACK _or_ BLAZING JOHN BOSVILLE (_Anselo Herne_), "_the flaming tinman_" _a_ "_half-in-half_" _itinerant tinker and bruiser_.
CATCHPOLE, _the landlord of a small inn_, _two miles from the Dingle_, _and not far from Willenhall in Staffordshire_.
MR.

HUNTER, _a radical_, _who wears a snuff-coloured coat and frequents the inn above named_.
_A postilion_, _whose headquarters are The Swan_, _Stafford_.
WOMEN.
ISOPEL _or_ BELLE BERNERS, _the beauteous queen of the Dingle_.
GREY MOLL, _wife of_ BOSVILLE, _the flying tinker_.
_A niece of the landlord of the inn_.
_The three daughters of Mrs.Herne_:-- PAKOMOVNA, (MRS.) PETULENGRO, MIKAILIA, (MRS.) CHIKNO.
URSULA, _widow of_ LAUNCELOT LOVELL, _who subsequently marries_ SYLVESTER.
ANIMALS.
AMBROL (_in gypsy_=_a pear_), LAVENGRO'S _little gry or pony_.
TRAVELLER, _a donkey_ (_gypsy_, _mailla_), _belonging to_ ISOPEL BERNERS.
THE SCENE _is laid under the greenwood tree_, _in the height of an English summer_.
THE DINGLE _is a deep_, _wooded_, _and consequently somewhat gloomy_, _hollow in the middle of a very large_, _desolate field_.

_The shelving sides of the hollow are overgrown with trees and bushes.