Vulgar words in The Gypsies (Page 1)
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It was a weenie affair,--just room for six forward outside the cubby, which was called the cabin; and of these six, one was Mr. Roebuck,--"the last Englishman," as some one has called him, but as the late Lord Lytton applies the same term to one of his characters about the time of the Conquest, its accuracy may be doubted.
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Then, in addition to the honor of moving in distinguished society, before the very eyes and in the high places of those who have hitherto always considered him as a lowly cuss, the Romany realizes far more than the common peasant the contrast-contradiction, or the humor of the drama, its bit of mystification, and especially the mystification of the house-folk.
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My friend Salaman, who boasts that he is of the last of the Sadducees,--that strange, ancient, and secret sect, who disguise themselves as the _Neu Reformirte_,--declares that the Sephardim may be distinguished from the Ashkenazim as readily as from the confounded Goyim, by the corners of their eyes.
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I tell you, you astonished me when you _rakkered_, though I spotted you in the crowd for one who was off the color of the common Gorgios,--or, as the Yahudi say, the _Goyim_.
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Perhaps he had learned what Rabbi Simon ben Yochai taught, that it is a good deed to smash the heads of the best of serpents, even as it is a duty to kill the best of Goyim.
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And if by Goyim he meant Philistines, I agree with him.