Crossword-Solution: GIPSIES 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Distinct upon the stagnant air came the sounds of a trotting horse passing up Weatherbury Hill—just beyond the gipsies’ encampment in Weatherbury Bottom.

Goddard’s, who had been also at the ball, had walked out together, and taken a road, the Richmond road, which, though apparently public enough for safety, had led them into alarm.—About half a mile beyond Highbury, making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired; and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it, they had suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies.

These were of aspect like to the gipsies of our time and nation, and were armed all of them, and mostly well clad after their fashion.

Beyond this mere look of things there was little for Brown’s freshening fancy to feed on; he saw no human beings, except some gipsies trailing along the river bank, with faggots and osiers cut in the forest; and one sight no longer unconventional, but in such remote parts still uncommon: a dark-haired lady, bare-headed, and paddling her own canoe.

Now it was comparatively easy at that time to trace the horses with the help of professional thieves among the gipsies.