[0n] ‘Life of Borrow,’ i. 103. ‘There were Sells at Norwich; their great artist was John Sell Cotman.’ And there have been Sells elsewhere—nomen omen! to borrow one of Mr. Groome’s favourite quotations.
[0o] ‘The Romany Rye,’ Appendix, chapter ix.
[0p] Ibid., Appendix, chapter ii. ‘He eats his own bread, and is one of the very few men in England who are independent in every sense of the word.’
[0q] It looks as if he met Jasper by appointment at the Welsh border. But extraordinary rencontres are commonplace in Borrow’s career. He meets the Apple-woman’s Armenian customer and restores his purse, he meets Ardrey as he is leaving London, and later at the inn on the Great North Road, where he also meets the Man in Black, Mr. Platitude, and the Postillion. He meets the Apple-woman’s son after leaving Salisbury, and six days later meets Slingsby, whom he had met as a boy at Tamworth. He meets Mrs. Herne—or, rather, she meets him—in the Shropshire dingle; he meets his Irish friend Murtagh at Horncastle, at the same fair; and in the person of Jack Dale, he meets the pseudo-Quaker’s son, who many years ago had robbed the old Chinese scholar from whom Borrow had just parted.
[0r] Christmas Day.
[0s] Irishman.
[0t] Guineas.
[0u] Borrow had accompanied the preacher and his wife to the Welsh border, where he meets Mr. Petulengro and turns back.
[0v] ‘Lavengro,’ ii. 262.
[0w] Ibid., ii. 263.