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Appreciating the fact that Mr. Roff and his family would furnish the best possible conditions for such development, and that he must be on his guard against unconscious exaggeration and misstatement, Dr. Hodgson nevertheless deemed the evidence presented to him too strong to be explained away on naturalistic grounds.
Roff was confident that she had really been of entirely sound mind, and equally confident that the present victim of "spirit infestation," to use the singular term employed by a later spiritistic eulogist of Lurancy, was also of sound mind. He therefore begged Mr. Vennum not to immure his daughter in an asylum; and Mrs.
"We've been out, and had an accident, and tumbled into a pond." "Serve you both right. Wonder you weren't both drowned," she said sharply. "Don't tell anybody," continued Mercer, in no wise alarmed. "We nearly were, only Jem Roff at Dawson's farm came and pulled us out." "Oh, my dear bairns," cried the woman, with her face and voice changing, "what would your poor mammas have said?"
"Haven't you got any pigeons now, Jem Roff?" "No, nor don't want none. Up wi' ye, and let me get back to my work." Mercer needed no further invitation, and, followed closely by me, he crossed to the corner where the ladder stood, climbed up, thrust the trap-door over, and disappeared head shoulders body legs.
"`Yes, Massa, replied Cudjo, coolly, though evidently with some slight symptoms of triumph in his manner; `yes, Massa Roff, dis black niggur hab gin de gemman a settler under de rib number five. He butt de breath out of poor Cassy no more poor ole Cassy! and Cudjo commenced caressing the dog Castor, which was the one that had suffered most from the horns of the elk.
It was indeed with some difficulty that she was persuaded to continue her journey; but once at its end all signs of disappointment vanished and she passed gaily from room to room, identifying objects which she had never seen before but which had been well-known to Mary Roff. Her pseudo-parents were in ecstacies of joy.
I knew it was the honey-locust, or thorny acacia, the carob-tree of the East, and the famed `algarobo' of the Spaniards. The moment his eyes rested upon the long brown legumes, he cried out, with gestures of delight: "`Massa Massa Roff, lookee yonder! beans and honey for supper! "We were soon under the branches: and while I proceeded to knock down and collect a quantity of the ripe fruit.
"If we do, I've got some capital stuff in a bottle to cure colds, and I'll give you some." "Thank you," I said, and there was a pause. "Are you asleep?" I said after a time, during which I had lain thinking about our experience of the day. "No." "What are you thinking about?" "I was wondering whether Mr and Mrs Jem Roff ate all that eel."
Vennum being completely prostrated by this unexpected development, it was soon decided that the little girl should for the time being take up her residence under the Roff roof. She removed there February 11, and on the way an event occurred that vastly strengthened belief in the reality of her claims.
To the suggestionally inspired fixed idea that she was not Lurancy Vennum but Mary Roff was thus added the fixed idea, derived from the same source, that in May she would become Lurancy Vennum again, and a perfectly well Lurancy.
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