"No one who knows me doubts my word, though I am not known for even five miles away." "What an extraordinary girl you are! You say things on purpose to provoke me.

Nobody ever does that; they are only too glad to keep me in a good temper." "If you are like that, Sir, I had better run away.

My father will be home in about an hour, and he might think that you had no business here." "I! No business upon my own land! This place must be bewitched, I think.
There is a witch upon the moors, I know, who can take almost any shape; but--but they say she is three hundred years of age, or more." "Perhaps, then, I am bewitched," said Insie; "or why should I stop to talk with you, who are only a rude boy, after all, even according to your own account ?" "Well, you can go if you like.

I suppose you live in that queer little place down there ?" "The house is quite good enough for me and my father and mother and brother Maunder.

Good-by; and please never to come here again." "You don't understand me.