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Updated: June 19, 2025
I now corrected myself, saying coolly enough: "Yes, Colonel Thomas, on second thought I think I might know her if I see her." "Perhaps," suggested Captain Fancher, "the wench has gone a-gypsying after the convoy." "These drabs change lovers over night," observed Colonel Thomas grimly. "Doubtless Sheldon's troopers are already consoling her."
Yes, and if but I lacked that plaguey virtue I would advise you to go a-gypsying with that nameless somebody, so that two manikins might snatch their little share of the big things that are eternal, just as the butterfly fares intrepidly and joyously, with the sun for his torchboy, through a universe wherein thought cannot estimate the unimportance of a butterfly, and wherein not even the chaste moon is very important.
After doing justice to a hearty breakfast, she said that she was going out for a walk and probably would not be back to luncheon. "My dear!" exclaimed Madame. "You mustn't do that. I'll have luncheon kept for you." "No, please don't, for I really shan't want any. Didn't you observe my breakfast? Even a piano-mover couldn't think of eating again before seven, so let me go a-gypsying till sunset."
I remember now that I had turned and was walking slowly back to where our horses stood, moving listlessly through the freshly mowed meadow between drenched haystacks the first I had seen that year and God alone knows where were my thoughts a-gypsying, when, very far away, I heard a gun-shot.
It often seemed to me that we were a luxuriously equipped expedition going forth to seek discomfort, for discomfort in several forms dust, rough roads, heat, cold, irregular hours, accidents is pretty sure to come to those who go a-gypsying in the South. But discomfort, after all, is what the camper-out is unconsciously seeking. We grow weary of our luxuries and conveniences.
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