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I'm going to prosecute them, sir, and I don't care what it costs me to do it; and I'll expose the whole system of these trumped-up fabrications, that contain, as a rule, one grain of truth to a hundredweight of lies. Well, now, Mr. Pryme, I want a clever barrister to take up this case, and I have instructed Messrs. Grainge, my solicitors, to retain you."
His account of his children's bewitchment and of their trances is very detailed. The book was again published at Harrogate in 1882, under the title of Dæmonologia: a Discourse on Witchcraft, with an introduction and notes by William Grainge.
You'd better have another, in case it does." Tammy took the second light, and moved away. "Those flares all ready for lighting there, Mr. Grainge?" the Captain asked. "All ready, Sir," replied the Mate. The Old Man pushed one of the blue-lights into his coat pocket, and stood upright. "Very well," he said. "Give each of the men one apiece. And just see that they all have matches."
After him followed three of the Mate's crowd, and then old Jaskett. "That will do; that will do," said the Old Man. He turned to the Second Mate. "Has Mr. Grainge come with those lights yet?" he asked, with a certain irritability. "Here, Sir," said the First Mate's voice, behind him in the Saloon doorway.
"That's sufficient, Mr. Tulipson," the Old Man interrupted. "I've made up my mind." He turned to the First Mate, who had stood by without a word. "Mr. Grainge," he said. "Take a couple of the 'prentices down with you, and pass out a box of blue-lights and some flare-ups." The Mate answered something, and hurried away into the Saloon, with the two 'prentices in his watch.
"You will, of course, take instructions in the main from Grainge and Co.; but what I wished to point out to you was ahem " here his voice unaccountably faltered, and his eyes, as though drawn by a magnet, returned once more with ominous displeasure to that little heap of feminine finery that lay between them. Mr.
Grainge, while we're aloft," he said. "i, i, Sir," the Mate answered and sung out to one of his 'prentices to take the blue-light box back into the cabin. The Old Man turned and led the way forrard. As we went, the light from the two lanterns shone upon the decks, showing the litter of the t'gallant gear.
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