[The Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lancashire Witches CHAPTER VII 16/52
Her unholy life, her strange actions, all impress me with the idea.
And there is the same tendency in Jennet." "You have a brother, have you not ?" inquired Dorothy. "I have," returned Alizon, slightly colouring; "but I see little of him, for he lives near my grandmother, in Pendle Forest, and always avoids me in his rare visits here.
You will think it strange when I tell you I have never beheld my grandmother Demdike." "I am glad to hear it," exclaimed Dorothy. "I have never even been to Pendle," pursued Alizon, "though Jennet and my mother go there frequently.
At one time I much wished to see my aged relative, and pressed my mother to take me with her; but she refused, and now I have no desire to go." "Strange!" exclaimed Dorothy.
"Every thing you tell me strengthens the idea I conceived, the moment I saw you, and which my brother also entertained, that you are not the daughter of Elizabeth Device." "Did your brother think this ?" cried Alizon, eagerly.
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