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Updated: June 5, 2025
Nattee disappeared, the gipsies' tent was no longer on the common, and the grass, which had been beaten down into a road by the feet of the frequent applicants to her, was again permitted to spring up.
"Poor Lady de Clare!" observed the mother. "Nattee will never leave her tribe," observed Cecilia quietly. "You are right, my dear," replied I. "She will be happier with her tribe where she commands as a queen, than ever she was at the castle."
"Fleta, do you know that the camp is to be broken up, and Melchior and Nattee leave it together?" "Indeed!" replied she with surprise. "Then what is to become of you and Timothy?" "We must of course seek our fortunes where we can." "And of me?" continued she, looking me earnestly in the face with her large blue eyes. "Am I to stay here?" continued she with alarm in her countenance.
Nattee, as I before mentioned, was of very high rank, or caste, in her tribe. At her first espousal of Melchior she lost much of her influence, as it was considered a degradation; but she was then very young, and must have been most beautiful.
The new comer fell prostrate with the push given her from without; and Lois, not recognizing anything but an old ragged woman lying helpless on her face on the ground, lifted her up; and lo! it was Nattee dirty, filthy indeed, mud-pelted, stone-bruised, beaten, and all astray in her wits with the treatment she had received from the mob outside.
I tried very hard to bring the landlady, but she would not consent; and now Nattee was pestered by people of higher condition, who wished to hear what she would say. Here Nattee's power were brought into play.
She smiled faintly when she saw the bright light of the April day; and put her arm round Nattee, and tried to keep the Indian quiet with hushing, soothing words of broken meaning, and holy fragments of the Psalms. Nattee tightened her hold upon Lois as they drew near the gallows, and the outrageous crowd below began to hoot and yell.
After that time Melchior, Timothy, and I, again set off for the town of , and stopping at a superior inn in another part of the town, dressed as travellers, that is, people who go about the country for orders from the manufacturers, ordered our beds and supper in the coffee-room. The conversation was soon turned upon the wonderful powers of Nattee, the gipsy.
In ten minutes it was over: the gipsy went to the running brook, washed his face, took a large draught of water, and then hastened away and was soon out of sight. Melchior, who had watched the departure of the gipsy slowly approached us. I observed him and Nattee as they met as I was certain that something important had taken place.
By these means we obtained the secret history of the major part, that is, the wealthier part of the town of ; and although the predictions of Nattée were seldom given, yet when given, they were given with such perfect and apparent knowledge of the parties, that when she left, which she did about six weeks after her first appearance, the whole town rang with accounts of her wonderful powers.
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