"Long Long Ago....

"...So long ago I hardly know when

My Great-Great Grandmother, now and then, 

Stepped out...with a Gypsy!"

 (Cole Porter, "The Gypsy in Me").

Actually, it was Mister Bell's Great-Great-Grandmother who was a Romany Gypsy. Which explains why a pair of pale and pasty Anglo-Celts managed to produce this swarthy son with the beautiful big dark eyes!