Lavengro - The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Lavengro, by George Borrow
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Title: Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Author: George Borrow Editor: F. Hindes Groome Release Date: October 3, 2007 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #22878]
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Transcribed from the 1901 Methuen & Co edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
LAVENGRO The Scholar—The Gypsy—The Priest
By GEORGE BORROW WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY F. HINDES GROOME VOLUME II
WITH A FRONTISPIECE LONDON METHUEN & CO 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. MDCCCCI
CHAPTER XLIX
Singular Personage—A Large Sum—Papa of Rome—We are Christians —Degenerate Armenians—Roots of Ararat—Regular Features. The Armenian! I frequently saw this individual, availing myself of the permission which he had given me to call upon him. A truly singular personage was he, with his love of amassing money, and his nationality so strong as to be akin to poetry. Many an Armenian I have subsequently known fond of moneygetting, and not destitute of national spirit; but never another who, in the midst of his schemes of lucre, was at all times willing to enter ...