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The inhabitants of these miserable dwellings were disturbed by the noise of our departure; and as our party of about twenty soldiers drew up in rank before marching off, we were reconnoitred by many a beldam from the half-opened door of her cottage.
Upon Elizabeth Clarke's confessions five other women "the old beldam" Anne West, who had "been suspected as a witch many yeers since, and suffered imprisonment for the same," her daughter Rebecca, Anne Leech, her daughter Helen Clarke, and Elizabeth Gooding were arrested. As in the case of the first, there was soon abundance of evidence offered about them.
If I live miserable, at least I shall not die stained with that unnatural guilt! And thou proceed if thou hast more to tell proceed, while thou hast voice to speak it, and I have powers to listen." "Yes," answered the beldam, "the hour when you shall hear, and I shall speak, is indeed passing rapidly away.
Lang it was ere he died; he strove, and strove sair, and could neither die nor live; but you half the country will see how ye'll grace the woodie. The party set up a hoarse laugh at Meg's prophecy. 'What made you come back here, ye auld beldam? said one of the gipsies; 'could ye not have staid where you were, and spaed fortunes to the Cumberland flats?
'Fool, said I, 'it was the officers she feared; and at any rate why does that beldam still dare to pollute the island with her presence? And O Cora, I exclaimed, remembering my grief, 'what matter all these troubles to an orphan? 'Mistress, said she, 'I must remind you of two things.
Did she not no, it was not her neither, but that accursed beldam whom she caused to work upon me persuade me like a fool to turn myself into a waterman to help my lord, and a plague to him, down to Scotland? and instead of going peaceably down to the ship at Gravesend, did not he rant and bully, and show his pistols, and make me land him at Greenwich, where he played some swaggering pranks, that helped both him and me into the Tower?"
Marry! old beldam, this monkey-trick of love, this Platonic drunkenness of the soul, was the only thing wanting to us, to me as well as you, and then the miracle of our heroic existence would have been quite perfect.... Well, goodbye, old dame; tomorrow night about this time I'll come to fetch you, and then we never part more." "Cousin," said Pancrazia, "goodbye, till we meet again.
'Daughter mine, replied the beldam, 'God who knoweth all knoweth that thou wilt do exceeding well, and if for nought else, yet shouldst thou do it, thou and every other young woman, not to lose the time of your youth, for that to whoso hath understanding, there is no grief like that of having lost one's time.
I'm coming, mother I'm coming," she concluded, on hearing a scuffle at the door betwixt the beldam and the officers, who were endeavouring to prevent her re-entrance. Madge then waved her hand wildly towards the ceiling, and sung, at the topmost pitch of her voice, "Up in the air, On my bonny grey mare, And I see, and I see, and I see her yet;"
'Broken limbs I wish, answered the beldam, 'that my hinnie had broken the best bane in his body, before he had broken his fiddle, that was the best blood in Scotland it was a Cremony, for aught that I ken. 'Pshaw only his fiddle? said I. 'I dinna ken what waur your honour could have wished him to do, unless he had broken his neck; and this is muckle the same to my hinnie Willie and me.
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