"...There are gypsies and gypsies in the world for there are the wanderers on the roads and the secret dwellers in towns; but even among the aficionados or Romany ryes by whom I mean those scholars who are fond of studying life and language from the people themselves very few have dreamed that there exist communities of gentlemanly and lady-like gypsies of art like the Bohemians of Murger and George Sand but differing from them in being real "Bohemians" by race. I confess that it had never occurred to me that there was anywhere in Europe at the present day least of all in the heart of great and wealthy cities a class or caste devoted entirely to art well-to-do or even rich refined in manners living in comfortable homes the women dressing elegantly; and yet with all this obliged to live by law as did the Jews once in Ghettos or in a certain street and regarded as outcasts and cagôts. I had heard there were gypsies in Russian cities and expected to find them like the kérengri of England or Germany house-dwellers somewhat reformed from vagabondage but still reckless semi-outlaws full of tricks and lies; in a word gypsies as the world understands the term..."