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Changing colour, and slightly trembling, she turned away from the child, who, noticing the effect of her threat, could not repress her triumph. But again Alizon interposed.
"It would remove all opposition, at all events," said her brother. "So it would," said Dorothy; "and now I'll tell you another notion of mine, Richard. Somehow or other, it has come into my head that Alizon is the daughter of whom do you think?" "Whom!" he cried. "Guess," she rejoined. "I can't," he exclaimed, impatiently. "Well, then, I'll tell you without more ado," she answered.
And, she added, with playful malice, "Who was wrong whon she said the queen could choose Master Richard " "Hush, Jennet, not a word more," interrupted Alizon, blushing. "Oh! ey dunna mean to vex ye, ey'm sure," replied Jennet. "Ey've got a present for ye." "A present for me, Jennet," cried Alizon; "what is it?" "A beautiful white dove," replied the little girl. "A white dove! Where did you get it?
"I must," replied Mistress Nutter; "there seems no likelihood of its cessation, and each moment is fraught with peril to Alizon. If aught happens to me, Nicholas if I should whatever mischance may befall me promise me you will stand by her." The squire gave the required promise. "Enough, I hold you to your word," said Mistress Nutter. "Take this parchment.
"Oh! must it be thus?" exclaimed Alizon, in a voice half suffocated by emotion. "It must," replied her mother. "Do not attempt to shake my resolution, my sweet child do not weep for me. Amidst all the terrors that surround me, I am happier now than I have been for years. I shall strive to work out my redemption by prayers." "And you will succeed!" cried Alizon.
"At the same time," pursued Potts, on a suggestion from the magistrate, "Master Roger Nowell demands that Alizon Device, daughter of Elizabeth Device, whom he beholds in your company, and who is likewise suspected of witchcraft, be likewised delivered up to him." "Aught more?" inquired Mistress Nutter.
"I will have none of it," replied Alizon; "I would rather die." "Rather die!" echoed Mother Demdike, sarcastically, "because, forsooth, you are crossed in love. But you shall have the man of your heart yet, if you will only follow my counsel, and do as I bid you. Richard Assheton shall be yours, and with your mother's consent, provided "
"If it would profit me to take it, I would do so without thy consent, but I am about to make an oblation to our master, and thou art his already. Snatch her child from her we waste time," she added, to her attendants. And immediately the weird crew rushed forward, and in spite of the miserable mother's efforts tore Alizon from her.
As to Richard, he did not dare to ask himself how things would end, neither did he know how to act. His mind was in utter confusion, and his breast oppressed as if by a nightmare. He cast one look towards the upper window, and beheld at it the white face of Mistress Nutter, intently gazing at what was going forward, but Alizon was not to be seen.
An end must speedily come of it; so better finish at once, before she be entangled in a mesh from which she cannot be extricated without danger. For hark thee, Dick, whatever thou mayst think, I am not so far gone that I know not what I say, neither is my vision so much obscured that I see not some matters plainly enough, and I understand thee and Alizon well, and see through you both.
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