Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 169
she must be bewitched, and that, if she wasbewitched, she had better be at home. Moreover, sank into a chair, will you take down my hair, orshall I become a maniac ? Mother went to work in a dazed way, feebly pull-ing at a hair-pin here or there, when, of a sudden,some string or something else gave… … THE MINUET. she fancied she saw several looking at her askance,and imagined that they were deliberating whetherto duck her in the horse-pond or hang her withoutmercy for a witch; so she grasped Uncle Georgesarm and said : Oh, please, Mr. George, if you have no ob-jections, I think I must go home.…
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