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I could not have tolerated this prattle about Gypsy superstitions had
I not observed that through it all the Gypsy was on the _qui vive_,
looking for the traces of her path that Winifred had unconsciously
left behind her. Had the Gypsy been following the trail with the
silence of an American Indian, she could not have worked more
carefully than she was now working while her tongue went rattling on.
I afterwards found this to be a characteristic of her race, as I
afterwards found that what is called the long sight of the Gypsies
(as displayed in the following of the _patrin_ [Footnote: Trail]) is
not long sight at all, but is the result of a peculiar faculty the
Gypsies have of observing more closely than Gorgios do everything
that meets their eyes in the woods and on the hills and along the
roads. When we reached the spot indicated by the Gypsy as being
Winifred's haunt, the ledge where she was in the habit of coming for
her imaginary interviews with the 'Prince of the Mist,' we did not
stay there, but for a time still followed the path, which from this
point became rougher and rougher, alongside deep precipices and
chasms.
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