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"And why did he wait so long, before returning it?" "He tried to be rid of the money, but was unable to find Thompson. And Trove, he lived to repay every creditor. Ah, sir, he was a man of a thousand." "That story of Darrel's in the little shop I see it was fact in a setting of fiction." "That's all it pretended to be," said the old man of the hills. "One more query," said the other.
They came close together and whispered. Then a little cry of despair, and one of them fell and was borne into a near house. A young man ran up the stairway at the Sign of the Dial and rapped loudly at Darrel's door, Trove and the tinker were inside. "Old fellow," said the newcomer, his hand upon Trove's arm, "they've voted to indict you, and I've seen all the witnesses."
That was not Darrel's plan of operation. She had an evil spirit, he declared. From four o'clock in the morning until noon he prayed over her spirit. He either set going of his own initiative the opinion that possessed persons could point out witches, or he quickly availed himself of such a belief already existing.
Darrel of Lincoln's Inn, had been elected to the office of marshal in deference to his wealth, his noble aspect, his fine nature, and his perfect mastery of all manly sports. On either side of Mr. Darrel's horse marched a lacquey bearing a flambeau, and the marshal's page was in attendance with his master's cloak.
He was convicted of felony so far as we can judge, on this unsupported afterthought of a single witness and was hanged. Sympathy, however, would be inappropriate. In the whole history of witchcraft there were few victims who came so near to deserving their fate. This was the story up to the time of Darrel's arrival. With Darrel came his assistant, George More, pastor of a church in Derbyshire.
More was Darrel's associate in the Cleworth performances and suffered imprisonment with him. A Detection of that sinnful, shamful, lying, and ridiculous discours of Samuel Harshnet. 1600. This is Darrel's most abusive work. He takes up Harsnett's points one by one and attempts to answer them.
Since the close of the sixteenth century and the end of John Darrel's activities, the accounts of possession had fallen off sensibly, but the last third of the seventeenth century saw a distinct revival of this tendency to assign certain forms of disease to the operation of the Devil. We have references to many cases, but only in exceptional instances are the details given.
It has indeed been suggested by one student of Shakespeare that the great playwright was lending his aid by certain allusions in Twelfth Night to Harsnett's attempts to pour ridicule on Puritan exorcism. It would be hard to say how much there is in this suggestion. About Ben Jonson we can speak more certainly. It is clearly evident that he sneered at Darrel's pretended possessions.
He was tall and had white hair an' whiskers an' a short blue coat. When I first see him he was settin' on a log, but 'fore I come nigh he got up an' made off." Although meagre, the description was sufficient. Trove had no longer any doubt of this that the stranger he had seen at Darrel's had been hiding in the bush that day whose events were now so important.
"An I could, so would I," said the old man. "A smile, boy, hath in it 'some relish o' salvation. Now, tell me, what is thy trouble?" "I'm going to leave school," said Trove. "An' wherefore?" "I'm sick of this pinching poverty. Look at my clothes; I thought I could make them do, but I can't." He put the two notes in Darrel's hand. The tinker wiped his spectacles and then read them both.
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