THE GIPSEY DAUGHTER: OR, THE FORTUNES OF A SPANISH CAVALIER
BYLIEUTENANT MURRAY.
No washing will turn the gipsey white. —FERDOUSI.
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1851.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by F. Gleason, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.PUBLISHER'S NOTE.—The following Novellette was originally published in THE FLAG OF OUR UNION, and is but one among the many deeply interesting productions emanating from that source. The FLAG has attained to a circulation unrivalled in newspaper literature; its contributors form a corps of the finest talent in the land, and its romances, tales, and poetical gems are of a high order, and such as enrich the columns of no other publication.
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PREFACE.
THE title of our story is particularly significant of its theme. The scenes are laid in Spain during the latter half of the sixteenth century, when the country was overrun by those migratory bands of gitanos, or gipseys, who have been the theme of so much romance, and whose history has been perused by the modern reader with avidity and interest. Our story draws in no way upon the improbable, but is rather a plain story of actual life, at the period, and among the people of whom it treats. The startling facts of those times, and the wild spirit that pervaded the roving tribes, was productive of events sufficiently exciting and startling without the author's drawing upon his ingenuity for material to interlace the thread of his story.
The main object of the tale, after depicting the history of those characters who form our dramatis personæ, will be to illustrate the peculiarities of gipsey life, and the strange fascination and love that its followers become impregnated with, by participating in its wild and unconcerned freedom. We shall paint for the eye also the chameleon colors of love (which takes its hue from what it rests upon), and show you its operation in the breast of the humble and the proud, and how in its potent power it levels all rank, and 'lays the sceptre beside the shepherd's crook.'
