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This was done, and it had the effect that she expected. Juba, familiarized by degrees with the object of his secret horror, and convinced that no obeah-woman was exercising over him her sorceries, recovered his health and spirits. His gratitude to Miss Portman, who was the immediate cause of his cure, was as simple and touching as it was lively and sincere.
Freke's fiery obeah-woman, then his joy on being relieved from these horrors, with the delightful sensations of returning health; and thence he suddenly passed to his gratitude to Belinda, the person to whom he owed his recovery. He concluded with wishing her all sorts of happiness, and, above all, that she might be fortunate in her love; which Juba thought the highest degree of felicity.
Lover's hero; like that of the Obeah-woman, when she tried to bribe the white gentleman with half a dozen of bottled beer; a case of muddle-headed craft and elaborate silliness, which keeps no proportion between the means and the end; so common in insane persons; frequent, too, among the lower Irish, such as Handy Andy; and very frequent, I am afraid, among the Negroes.
Freke, by declining her invitation to Harrowgate?" "I think her friendship more to be dreaded than her enmity," replied Belinda. "Then you are not to be terrified by an obeah-woman?" said Mr. Vincent. "Not in the least, unless she were to come in the shape of a false friend," said Belinda. "Till lately," said Mr. Vincent, "I was deceived in the character of Mrs. Freke.
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