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        John was part gypsy, the people wispered. And, if they were mistaken, this seemed very well hidden by the man's traits. He had a very wild appearance about him, like he had been raised by wolves and his manner was wild as well. You didn't know if he was going to laugh or cut a man's head clear off his shoulders.         And this man, who had the uncanny ability of scaring old women and delighting children with tails of adventures and creatures the likes of which they had never seen or heard before had, five years ago, taken up a wife, a woman who did very little to better his reputation.         They called her Long Faced Jane, tho...

Heathcliff Hilarious had had a stroke of luck in his younger years; born into a numerous and poor family it seemed that the small boy would not have many chances of a swiftly achieved success in life. However, when he was fourteen, the keeper of the local inn seemed to take notice of him. His inclination towards learning proved to be deceptive to his parents, who had placed hope in a son that would go on to acquire, through study, a respectable profession that would come to take the family out of the poverty in which it had been damned. However, despite this, he turned out to be a hard worker, something which the keeper of the inn took not...

  People were gathered as much as the small street could accommodate, and every now and then angry yells of approval would be heard towards a man that was sitting on an improvised podium, and which was carrying out a speech, that to the listeners seemed nothing short of igniting.                  In any other situation, the man could have hardly passed for an orator, as his face lacked the charisma needed so as to attract an auditory visually. Tall, with graying hair on the sides of his head and a long pointy beard, the man seemed ready to blow away at the following stronger gust of wind that would appear. His face was even less appealing,...