Only one thing I do know: Gypsy never grew up to be “timid,” or silly, or mean, or lazy; but a sensible woman, true and strong; asking little help of other people, but giving much; an honor to her brave and loving sex, and a safe comrade to the girls who kept step with her into middle life; and I trust that I may bespeak from their daughters and their scholars a kindly welcome to an old story, told again.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

Newton Centre, Mass.,
April, 1895.

Contents

CHAPTER IWHICH INTRODUCES HER[7]
CHAPTER IIA SPASM OF ORDER[21]
CHAPTER IIIMISS MELVILLE’S VISITOR[42]
CHAPTER IVGYPSY HAS A DREAM[69]
CHAPTER VWHAT SHE SAW[89]
CHAPTER VIUP IN THE APPLE TREE[105]
CHAPTER VIIJUST LIKE GYPSY[126]
CHAPTER VIIIPEACE MAYTHORNE[146]
CHAPTER IXCAMPING OUT[167]
CHAPTER XTHE END OF THE WEEK[202]
CHAPTER XIGYPSY’S OPINION OF BOSTON[213]
CHAPTER XIINO PLACE LIKE HOME[242]

GYPSY BREYNTON