widow, daughter of Edmund Skepper, was wedded to
Borrow on April 23rd, 1840. Her daughter, Henrietta, is still living at
a great age at Yarmouth. Borrow gives a characteristic account of these
two ladies in the first chapter of _Wild Wales_. "Of my wife I will
merely say that she is a perfect paragon of wives--can make puddings and
sweets and treacle posset, and is the best woman of business in East
Anglia: of my step-daughter, for such she is though I generally call her
daughter, and with good reason seeing that she has always shown herself a
daughter to me, that she has all kinds of good qualities and several
accomplishments, knowing something of conchology, more of botany, drawing
capitally in the Dutch style, and playing remarkably well on the
guitar--not the trumpery German thing so-called, but the real Spanish
guitar." Borrow's mother had died in August 1858.

{40} This was written in December 1900.

{43} There remains only the _Appendix_. A delightful resume of
grievances brooded over in solitude, cruelly stigmatised by Professor
Knapp as "certain posterior interpolations." The ground base of the
theme is the wickedness of popery; and when argument gives out Borrow is
ready with all the boyish inconsequence of a Charles Kingsley to throw up
his cap and shout 'Go it, our side!' 'Down with the Pope!'

{49} Borrow's personal appearance, as we know from the later portrait by
his most intimate friend, Dr. Thomas Gordon Hake, must have been
sufficiently striking at any period of his life. "His figure was tall
and his bearing very noble. He had a finely moulded head and thick white
hair--white from his youth; his brown eyes were soft, yet piercing; his
mouth had a generous curve--his nose was somewhat of the Semitic type,
which gave his face the cast of a young Memnon." This is confirmed by
the assurance in _Lavengro_ that a famous heroic painter was extremely
anxious to secure Don Jorge as a model for the face and figure of
Pharaoh!

{52} "I am not cunning. If people think I am it is because, being made
up of art themselves, simplicity of character is a puzzle to
them."--_Romany Rye_, chap. xi.

{61} _Gypsy lad_.

{62} _Blacksmith_.

{63a} _Tell fortunes_.

{63b} Hill Tower: _i.e_. Norwich.

{63c} _Farewell_.

{64} _Blacksmith_.

{65a} _Smith_.

{65b} The "Wayland Smith" referred to in _Kenilworth_.

{67a} _Horse_.

{67b} _Horseshoe_.

{67c} _Striking_.

{69a} _Horse_.