{312} Poknees, magistrate.

{318} _Steal_.

{326} See Introduction, p. 9. This is the book the MS. of which
Lavengro sold for 20 pounds, and upon the proceeds of which he started
upon the ramble which led him to the dingle. The _Life of Joseph Sell_
is not known to Bibliography; but the incident is nevertheless probably
drawn from Borrow's own career.

{330} "Good."

{337} The next time the compassionate word-master visited the landlord,
he found him a 'down pin' no longer, but the centre of an adulatory
crowd. The way in which he surmounted the sea of troubles that beset him
is described with much humour in _The Romany Rye_ (chap. xvii). The main
factors in his relief were (1) Strong ale, taken by the advice of
Lavengro, which leads to Catchpole knocking down the radical, Hunter, and
winning back the admiration of the tap-room, (2) a loan from the parson
of Willenhall, who wished to save a muscular fellow-Protestant from the
clutches of the man in black. The brewer now became very civil, a coach
was appointed to stop at the inn, and, in short, Catchpole is left by
Lavengro riding upon the summit of the wave of popularity and good
fortune.

{343} Jacobus Villotte, his _Dictionarium Latino-Armenium_, Rome, 1714.

{348} And this, alas! is the last glimpse we are to have of Isopel
Berners, a heroine whose like we shall scarce encounter again in the
whole wide world of romance. Charles Kingsley says of her, indeed, that
she is far too good not to be true. The likeness is undoubtedly a
masterpiece, yet, though Borrow has drawn the outline firmly, he leaves
much for the imagination to fill in. Languid indeed must be the
imagination that can fail to be stimulated by Borrow's outline of his
Brynhilda. Cast in the mould of Britannia, queen, however, not of the
waves but of the woodland, poor yet noble, and innocent of every mean
ambition of gentility, faithful, valiant, and proud,--as she stands pale
and commanding, in the sunshine at the dingle's mouth, in all her
virginal dignity, is she not a figure worthy to rank with the queens of
Beauty and Romance, with Dido "with a willow in her hand," with the
deeply-loving Rebecca as with a calm and tender dignity she bids for ever
adieu to the land of Wilfred of Ivanhoe?

{361} After the receipt of this letter three nights elapsed, and then
the word-master himself left the dingle for the last time. The third
night he spent alone in his encampment "in a very