The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: well made, with olive complexion, magnificent eyes, and
golden hair.
Many of the young dancers were remarkably pretty, all
possessing the clear-cut features of their race. These
Tsiganes are generally very attractive, and more than one
of the great Russian nobles, who try to vie with the English
in eccentricity, has not hesitated to choose his wife from
among these gypsy girls. One of them was humming a
song of strange rhythm, which might be thus rendered:
"Glitters brightly the gold
In my raven locks streaming
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