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...woods, or sought out her brother's foils in the attic, and spent hours "fencing with unstable shadows cast by the candles that she lit in the dusk." When Ludovic killed her lover, a beautiful and outcast Jew, Isabella in turn killed her brother, and fled with a gypsyman to whom she bore seven sons and a daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tainted | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsyman-and all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Irishry | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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