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The question was not challenged now. "He told me to say that he had left the note at the door." "But he had not done so?" "No, sir; he wrote it in the drawing-room." "Thank you. That is all." But this witness was not allowed to pass as the others had done. The counsel for the prosecution got up. "You told Mrs. Assheton that it had been left at the door?" "Yes, sir." "You knew that was untrue?"
"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 "
They were Richard and Nicholas Assheton. The iron bar had at length yielded to their efforts, and the first use they made of their freedom was to hurry to the river.
Sir Ralph Assheton had married twice, his first wife being a daughter of Sir James Bellingham of Levens, in Northumberland, by whom he had two children; while his second choice fell upon Eleanor Shuttleworth, the lovely and well-endowed heiress of Gawthorpe, to whom he had been recently united.
If there were, I am an Effingham; my estate came from Effinghams, and to an Effingham it should descend in despite of all the Asshetons in America." "Paul Powis included!" exclaimed Eve, raising a finger reproachfully. "True, to him I have left a legacy; but it was to a Powis, and not to an Assheton." "And yet he declares himself legally an Assheton, and not a Powis."
Thus the whole of Whalley belonged to the families of Assheton and Braddyll, which had intermarried; the latter, as has been stated, dwelling at Portfield, a fine old seat in the neighbourhood. A very different person from Sir Ralph was his cousin, Nicholas Assheton of Downham, who, except as regards his Puritanism, might be considered a type of the Lancashire squire of the day.
"Thy spirit is unable to preserve thee now!" cried Mother Demdike, aiming a deadly blow at her with the knife. But, fortunately, the attempt was foreseen by Richard, who caught her arm, and wrested the weapon from her. "Curses on thee, Richard Assheton!" cried the infuriated hag, "and on thee too, Alizon Device, I cannot work ye the immediate ill I wish.
Paul then explained the manner in which he had been adopted while still a child, by a gentleman called Powis, whose name he had taken, on finding himself deserted by his own natural parent, and to whose fortune he had succeeded, on the death of his voluntary protector. "I bore the name of Assheton until Mr.
"She failed in propitiating him at the meeting in the ruined church of Whalley last night, when thou thyself wert present, and deliveredst Dorothy Assheton from the snare in which she was taken. And since then all has gone wrong with her.
Jack Assheton and myself have, or rather had a strong family likeness to each other, and, though the thought is new to me, I can now easily trace this resemblance to myself. It is rather an Assheton than an Effingham look, though the latter is not wanting." "These explanations are very clear and satisfactory," observed Mr.
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