Mrs. Carlyle, in one of her delightful letters gossiping about Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton, and Tennyson, esteems the latter "the greatest genius of the three," adding that "besides, he is a very handsome man, and a noble-hearted one, with something of the gypsy in his appearance, which for me is perfectly charming."

What wizard hints across them fleet, These heirs of all the town's thick sin, Swift gypsies of the tortuous street, With childhood yet on cheek and chin!

I was drowned bathing at Margate, and I was killed by a gypsy with a spike; he knocked my head

Eznarza: Thalanna will not have a gypsy for a Queen.

East Side Italian and Jew brush shoulders in Miss Spadoni's tales; Englishman, Dane, and South Sea Islander shake hands on the same page of W. Somerset Maugham's "The Trembling of a Leaf"; Norwegian, Frenchman, and Spaniard are among us, as before; Bercovici's gypsies from the Roumanian Danube, now collected in "Ghitza," flash colourful and foreign from the Dobrudja Mountains and the Black Sea.

A gypsy by descent, passionate and vindictive in temper, she refused to yield in any thing to her husband, who all but brought her to her grave, and whom, although she had been eternally squabbling with him, she could net bear long to survive.

Tell me, Bessie, did you ever see any gypsies like these when you lived in the country!"

She herself had seen a few gypsies near Hedgeville in her time, but in that part of the country those strange wanderers were not popular.

He glanced from the tall, fair-haired daughter to the lithe little gypsy at her side.

I knocked many times before I could obtain admittance, and, at last, the door was opened by a ragged urchin about twelve years of age, looking more like the son of a thief or a gypsy than a juvenile member of the decent household.

"There were gypsies around Hedgeville two or three times, but the farmers all hated them, and used to try to drive them away, and Maw Hoover told me not to go near them when they were around.