Gypsy and Ginger

Eleanor Farjeon

• 11 februari 2021
• 1230004540717

Samenvatting:

When Gypsy and Ginger got married—Oh, but before that I ought to say that those were not their names. Hers was the name of the most beautiful of women, and his the name of the most victorious of men. But they were not a bit like that really. Parents make these mistakes, and the false prophecies they invent for their infants at the font continue to be their delusions through life. But nobody else’s. As they grow up the children find their level, and are called according to their deserts. And so Gypsy was called Gypsy because his hair wasn’t really quite as black as a gypsy’s; and Ginger was called Ginger because her hair was the sort of hair that those who adore it love to insult. It was anything by ginger; or, rather, it was everything besides. Such as mace, and cinnamon, and nutmeg, and cayenne, and ochre, and burnt sienna, and Vandyke brown and a touch of chrome no.3; and one hair, named Vivien, was pure vermilion.