Nothing can change it. I have waited for you, and
I will wait, but you shall be mine in the end. You see to-night--'Mi
Duvel', you see that fate is with me! The Gorgio has bewitched you. He
goes down to-night in that tavern there by the hand of a Gorgio, and the
Romany has his revenge. Fate is always with me, and I will be the gift of
the gods to the woman that takes me. The luck is mine always. It will be
always with me. I am poor to-day, I shall be rich to-morrow. I was rich,
and I lost it all; and I was poor, and became rich again. Ah, yes, there
are ways! Sometimes it is a Government, sometimes a prince that wants to
know, and Jethro Fawe, the Romany, finds it out, and money fills his
pockets. I am here, poor, because last year when I lost all, I said, 'It
is because my Romany lass is not with me. I have not brought her to my
tan, but when she comes then the gold will be here as before, and more
when it is wanted.' So, I came, and I hear the road calling, and all the
camping places over all the world, and I see the patrins in every lane,
and my heart is lifted up. I am glad. I rejoice. My heart burns with
love. I will forget everything, and be true to the queen of my soul. Men
die, and Gabriel Druse, he will die one day, and when the time comes,
then it would be that you and I would beckon, and all the world would
come to us.
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