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But I am not so unacquainted with the zeal of some men, which enables them to spin consequences, and to see religion threatened, whenever any one ventures to quit their forms of speaking, as not to foresee what names such a proposition as this is like to be charged with: and without doubt it will be asked, If changelings are something between man and beast, what will become of them in the other world?
Whatever might be the natural affection of the colonies for the mother country, and there are abundant evidences to prove that it was deep-rooted and strong, it had never been properly reciprocated. They yearned to be considered as children; they were treated by her as changelings.
It would possibly be thought a bold paradox, if not a very dangerous falsehood, if I should say that some CHANGELINGS, who have lived forty years together, without any appearance of reason, are something between a man and a beast: which prejudice is founded upon nothing else but a false supposition, that these two names, man and beast, stand for distinct species so set out by real essences, that there can come no other species between them: whereas if we will abstract from those names, and the supposition of such specific essences made by nature, wherein all things of the same denominations did exactly and equally partake; if we would not fancy that there were a certain number of these essences, wherein all things, as in moulds, were cast and formed; we should find that the idea of the shape, motion, and life of a man without reason, is as much a distinct idea, and makes as much a distinct sort of things from man and beast, as the idea of the shape of an ass with reason would be different from either that of man or beast, and be a species of an animal between, or distinct from both.
And now came the first incident that made me suspect her to be demented. She had proceeded with her changelings behind the kitchen, where one of the irrigation ditches ran under the fence from the hay-field to supply the house with water. Some distance along this ditch inside the field were the twelve turkeys in the short, recently cut stubble. Again Em'ly set off instantly like a deer.
I do not doubt Jotham's grandfather told them of his grandfather and that they belong to neither but are local folk lore, pasture sagas, changelings born of the queer union of east wind and blueberry blooms, brought up by hand farm hand. "My grandfather," says Jotham, "was a great hunter.
Those changelings from some fateful land, those passionate, pale women, the milestones of whose pilgrimage spelled love, ruin, despair, and death, they were her kindred, her sisters. Day and night they kept her company: and her own pain lessened, grew at last to a still and dreamy sorrow, never absent, never poignant. Of necessity, importunate grief was drugged to sleep.
In the chapter on Changelings I had occasion to refer to some instances of women being carried off at a critical time in their lives. One more such instance may be added here.
Love to carry on a party, or a design to be seen or accounted somebody, to maintain their credit and reputation, lest they be accounted changelings and the like, will prove very dangerous in this case; for these may forcibly carry the soul away, to embrace one error after another, and one error to strengthen and confirm another, that it is hard to know where or when they shall stand.
Toss as he may, his dreams do not discover the lost secret. Even Philip Hardin may meet a Nemesis. Villa Rocca, slain by a well-contrived accident, died for a secret he knew not. His own hand slew the woman who knew alone of the changelings, save the bright and defiant ex-queen of the El Dorado. Dark memories hover around some of the great mines of the Pacific.
In return she had rendered him a jealous loyalty and an absorbing wifehood, and he had found his happiness apart from his ambition. Now she dimpled as he looked at her and he pinched her cheek. "The mother of six children!" he exclaimed; "they're changelings." He looked at Carrie, who was flitting nervously from room to room. "It's a shame she didn't take after you," he added.
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