s."

"Well if you know so much, you must also know that I am married, fool!"

The gypsy woman slyly winked.

"I am no fool: my eyes are not bad. I know the wild dove from the tame.
You are no married woman, young lady: you are still a maiden. I have
looked into the eyes of many girls and women: I know which is which. A
girl's eye lurks beneath the eyelids, as if she were looking always out
of an ambuscade, as if she were always afraid somebody would notice her.
A woman's eye always flashes as if she were looking for somebody. When a
girl says in jest 'I am a married woman,' she blushes: if she were a
woman, she would smile. You are certainly still unmarried, young lady."

Czipra was annoyed at having opened a conversation with her. She felt
that her face was really burning. She hastened to the open fire-place,
driving the servant away that she might put her burning face down to the
flaming fire.

The gypsy woman became more obtrusive, seeing she had put the girl to
confusion. She sidled up to her.

"I see more, beautiful young lady. The girl that blushes quickly has
much sorrow and many desires. Your ladyship has joy and sorrow too."

"Oh, away with you!" exclaimed Czipra hastily.

It is not so easy to get rid of a gypsy woman, once she has firmly
planted her foot.

"Yet I know a very good remedy for that."

"I have already told you to be off."

"Which will make the bridegroom as tame as a lamb that always runs after
its mistress."

"I don't want your remedies."

"It is no potion I am talking of, merely an enchantment."

"Throw her out!" Czipra commanded the servants.

"You won't throw me out, girls: rather listen to what I say. Which of
you would like to know what you must do to enchant the young fellows so
that even if every particle of them were full of falsity, they could not
deceive you in their affection. Well, Susie: I see you're laughing at
it. And you, Kati? Why, I saw your Joseph speaking to the bailiff's
daughter at the fence: this spell would do him no harm."

All the grinning serving-maids, instead of rescuing Czipra from the
woman, only assisted the latter in her siege. They surrounded her and
even cut off Czipra's way, waiting curiously for what the gypsy would
say.

"It is a harmless remedy, and costs nothing."

The gypsy woman drew nearer to Czipra.

"When at midnight the nightingale sings below your window, take notice
on what branch it sat. Go out bare-footed, break down that b