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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Ye shanna get th' start o' me, Phil, fo' by th' mess! the very same day os sees yo wedded to Nancy Holt shan find me united to Sukey Worseley. An so Alizon win ha' two cottages i' Bowland Forest to visit i'stead o' one." "And well pleased I shall be to visit them both," she rejoined. At this moment Mistress Nutter came up.
As she spoke, a growl like thunder was heard in the air, and the earth trembled beneath their feet. "Nay, now I am sure you are my mother!" cried Alizon, flinging herself into Mistress Nutter's arms; "and I will go with you." But before they could move, several dusky figures were seen rushing towards them. "Be on your guard!" cried Mother Chattox; "here comes old Demdike with her troop.
"It is with that hope that I have given you this information, sir, of which I am sure you will make no improper use," replied Sir John. "I have heard a similar character to that you have given of Alizon, and am unwilling she should fall a victim to art or malice.
The young girl was not discomposed by this question, but answered in a firm, melancholy tone "Your Majesty, I fear, is too well acquainted with my unfortunate mother's history." "Aweel, we winna deny having heard somewhat to her disadvantage," replied the King "but your ain looks gang far to contradict the reports, fair maid." "Place no faith in them then, sire," replied Alizon, sadly.
"I understand the condition you annex to the promise," interrupted Alizon, "and the terms upon which you would fulfil it: but you seek in vain to tempt me, old woman. I now comprehend why I am brought hither." "Ay, indeed!" exclaimed the old witch. "And why is it, then, since you are so quick-witted?" "You desire to make an offering to the evil being you serve," cried Alizon, with sudden energy.
"You are mistaken, sire," cried Richard, earnestly. "Alizon will be here to-day with my father and sister, and, if you deign to receive her, I am sure you will judge her differently." "We shall perpend the point of receiving her," replied the King, gravely. "But we are rarely mista'en, young man, and seldom change our opinion except upon gude grounds, and those you arena like to offer us.
Your liberty is threatened, and at the very moment I see you here I was lamenting your supposed condition as a prisoner." Jennet laughed louder and more spitefully than before, and looked so like a little fury that Alizon's blood ran cold at the sight of it. "Ey knoa it aw, sister Alizon," she cried, "an that is why ey ha cum'd here. Brother Jem is a pris'ner i' Whalley Abbey.
Alice Nutter must have given him some potent counter-charm." "He comes to deliver me," cried Alizon. "Richard!" And she arose, and would have flown to the window, but Mother Demdike waved her staff over her, and rooted her to the ground. "Stay there till I require thee," chuckled the hag, moving, with ponderous footsteps, to the door.
"Enough to convince me, that in gaining a mother I was lost myself," replied Alizon; "for oh! how can I survive the shock of telling you I am bound, by ties that can never be dissevered, to one abandoned alike of God and man who has devoted herself to the Fiend! Pity me, Richard pity me, and shun me!" There was a moment's dreadful pause, which the young man was unable to break.
"I will do something to convince the King he is mistaken in me that I am not bewitched," cried Richard, rising and striding across the room. "Bewitched! and by Alizon, too! I could laugh at the charge, but that it is too horrible. Had any other than the King breathed it, I would have slain him."
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