the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just-opened

No one like Gypsy Will's wife for dancing in a platter.

the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just-opened

When Constance Smith died, she was a hundred ten years old.

the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just-opened

I knows her very well, brother.

the merest necessary flicker, like the shadow of a just-opened

I loves her very much, brother; and I have often, often said to the other Gypsies, when they speaking ill of her: She's a gentlewoman; takes care of all of you; if it were not for her, you would all go to the devil.

She tells fortunes, brother; she tells fortunes.

Is she a good hand at fortune-telling?

There's no Roman woman under the sun so good at fortune-telling as Mrs. Cooper; it is impossible not to have your fortune told by her; she's a true witch; she takes people by the hand, and tells their fortunes, whether they will or no.

'Tis no use to go seeking after Gypsies. When you wants to see them 'tis impossible to find one of them; but when you are thinking of other matters you see plenty, plenty of them.

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