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Gypsy's Cousin Joy By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) |
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By
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps New York
Dodd, Mead and Company [Illustration] Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by GRAVES & YOUNG, in the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Massachusetts Copyright, 1895, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. PREFACE. Having been asked to write a preface to the new edition of the Gypsy
books, I am not a little perplexed. I was hardly more than a girl
myself, when I recorded the history of this young person; and I find it
hard, at this distance, to photograph her as she looks, or ought to look
to day. She does not sit still long enough to be "taken." I see a lively
girl in pretty short dresses and very long stockings, quite a Tom boy,
if I remember rightly. She paddles a raft, she climbs a tree, she skates
and tramps and coasts, she is usually very muddy, and a little torn.
There is apt to be a pin in her gathers; but there is sure to be a laugh
in her eyes. Wherever there is mischief, there is Gypsy. Yet, wherever
there is fun, and health, and hope, and happiness, and I think,
wherever there is truthfulness and generosity, there is Gypsy, too. And now, the publishers tell me that Gypsy is thirty years old, and that
girls who were not so much as born when I knew the little lady, are her
readers and her friends to day. Thirty years old? Indeed, it is more than that! For is it not thirty
years since the publication of her memoirs? And was she, at that time,
possibly sixteen? Forty six years? Incredible! How in the world did
Gypsy "grow up?" For that was before toboggans and telephones, before
bicycles and electric cars, before bangs and puffed sleeves, before
girls studied Greek, and golf capes came in. Did she go to college? For
the Annex, and Smith, and Wellesley were not. Did she have a career? Or
take a husband? Did she edit a Quarterly Review, or sing a baby to
sleep? Did she write poetry, or make pies? Did she practice medicine, or
matrimony? Who knows? Not even the author of her being. Only one thing I do know: Gypsy never grew up to be "timid," or silly,
or mean, or lazy; but a sensible woman, true and strong; asking little
help of other people, but giving much; an honor to her brave and loving
sex, and a safe comrade to the girls who kept step with her into middle
life; and I trust that I may bespeak from their daughters and their
scholars a kindly welcome to an old story, told again. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Newton Centre, Mass.,
April, 1895. CONTENTS CHAPTER I NEWS 7
CHAPTER II SHE SHALL COME? 24
CHAPTER III ONE EVENING 40
CHAPTER IV CHESTNUTS 54
CHAPTER V GYPSY MAKES A DISCOVERY 82
CHAPTER VI WHO PUT IT IN? 99
CHAPTER VII PEACE MAYTHORNE'S ROOM 122
CHAPTER VIII THE STORY OF A NIGHT 148
CHAPTER IX UP RATTLESNAKE 187
CHAPTER X WE ARE LOST 211
CHAPTER XI GRAND TIMES 229
CHAPTER XII A TELEGRAM 243
CHAPTER XIII A SUNDAY NIGHT 263
CHAPTER XIV GOOD BYE 274
GYPSY'S COUSIN JOY CHAPTER I NEWS
The second arithmetic class had just come out to recite, when somebody
knocked at the door. Miss Cardrew sent Delia Guest to open it. "It's a ha, ha! letter he, he! for you," said Delia, coming up to
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