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Oh! that I could undeceive her could warn her of the snare!" "What is the nature of the delusion?" asked Mother Chattox, with some curiosity. "I am so blind I cannot see the figures on the water." "It is an evil spirit in my likeness," replied Mistress Nutter. "In your likeness!" exclaimed the hag. "A cunning device and worthy of old Demdike ho! ho!"
"You have a sharp tongue, I find. Courtesy is thrown away upon you. What, ho! lads Kenyon and Lowton, take the lady down to the vaults, and there let her have an hour for solitary reflection. She may change her mind in that time." "Do not think it," cried Mistress Nutter, resolutely. "If you continue obstinate, we will find means to move you," rejoined Demdike, in a taunting tone.
I shall have rheumatism in my joints, pains in my loins, and rheum in my head, oh dear oh dear!" "In which case you will not be able to pay Mother Demdike your purposed visit to-morrow," jeered Nicholas. "You forgot you were to arrest her, and bring her before a magistrate." "Thy arm, good fellow, thy arm!" said Potts, to Jem Device. "To the fiend wi' thee," cried Jem, shaking him off roughly.
"Spit out thy last drops of venom, black viper," rejoined Mother Demdike; "when I have done with the others, I will return and finish thee. Alice Nutter, thou knowest it is vain to struggle with me. Give me up the girl." "Wilt thou accept my life for hers?" said Mistress Nutter. "Of what account would thy life be to me?" rejoined Mother Demdike, disdainfully.
Many proselytes have I made; many unbaptised babes offered up in sacrifice. I am high-priestess to the Demon, and thy mother would usurp mine office." "Oh! spare me this horrible recital!" exclaimed Alizon, vainly trying to shut out the hag's piercing voice. "I will spare thee nothing," pursued Mother Demdike. "Thy mother, I say, would be high-priestess in my stead.
"Now, John, my good man, be pleased to tell us by whom you have been bewitched?" "By Mother Demdike," groaned the man. "Mother Demdike, ah?" exclaimed Potts, "good! very good. Now, John, as to the cause of your quarrel with the old hag?" "Ey con scarcely rekillect it, my head be so confused, mester," replied the pedlar.
From that child sprung Bess Blackburn, the mother of old Demdike; so that the witch is a direct descendant of Isole de Heton. "Notwithstanding all precautions, Isole's dark offence became known, and she would have paid the penalty of it at the stake, if she had not fled.
"You will never set out upon the expedition, lord abbot," cried Demdike, planting his staff so suddenly into the ground before the horse's head that the animal reared and nearly threw his rider. "How now, fellow, what mean you?" cried the abbot, furiously. "To warn you," replied Demdike. "Stand aside," cried the abbot, spurring his steed, "or I will trample you beneath my horse's feet."
His garb was that of a forester, and his bulk for he was stoutly and squarely built had contributed, no doubt, to the severity of the fall. When he was lifted from the ground, Nicholas instantly recognised in his blackened and distorted features those of Christopher Demdike. "What?" he exclaimed, rushing towards him. "Is it thou, villain?" The sufferer only replied by a look of intense malignity.
Between the rival witch potentates, Mothers Demdike and Chattox, it has already been said a deadly enmity existed, and the feud was carried on with equal animosity by their descendants; and though Jem himself came under the same suspicion as Nan Redferne, that circumstance created no tie of interest between them, but the contrary, and he was the most active of her assailants.
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