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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Yes, I have heard of the name of Corvinus.
_Hungarian_.

By my God, I am glad of it; I thought our hammer of destruction, our thunderbolt, whom the Greeks called Achilles, must be known to the people of Horncastle.

Well, Hunyadi and Corvinus are the same.
_Myself_.

Corvinus means the man of the crow, or raven.

I suppose that your John, when a boy, climbed up to a crow or raven's nest, and stole the young; a bold feat, well befitting a young hero.
_Hungarian_.


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