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Updated: July 3, 2025
It seemed to me then and with utmost conviction I uttered the feeling abroad, the while perceiving no public amusement that the powers of doctors were fair witchlike: for no sooner had my sweet sister swallowed the first draught our doctor mixed nay, no sooner had it been offered her in the silver spoon, and by the doctor, himself than her soft cheek turned the red of health, and her dimples, which of late had been expressionless, invited kisses in a fashion the most compelling, so that a man of mere human parts would swiftly take them, though he were next moment hanged for it.
The moonlight streaming upon the girl showed her beauty in a witchlike brightness. It stirred Billy in an uneasy, anxious fashion. "There ain't no call t' tell any one," he said, "you an' me is enough t' know. Us an' them what pays ye!" "Cap'n Daddy; I'm a model!" "A modil what?" Janet's laugh rose above the lapping water's sound. "Why, Daddy! Don't you think I'm a model everything?"
From her place in the shadows Moll Hawk watched the other woman stoop over and gaze intently at the face of the slain man. She was a tall, well-developed girl of twenty or thereabouts. Her long, straight hair, the colour of the raven's wing, swung loose about her shoulders, an occasional strand trailing across her face, giving her a singularly witchlike appearance.
The same law that had worked in her, bringing her up from a tall, straight-backed slip of a girl to a woman strong and grown, from a woman grown to a woman old, angular, feeble, almost witchlike, with individuality all sharpened and sharpened, as all rounding from the world's contact fell off from her that same law would work, was working, in the family she had watched like a mother.
But even this face did not dwell with pleasure in his memory, it woke up confused and labouring associations of something weird and witchlike, of sorceresses and tymbesteres, of wild warnings screeched in his ear, of incantations and devilries and doom. Impatient of these musings, he sought to leap from his bed, and was amazed that the leap subsided into a tottering crawl.
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