How and by what means you have derived this information, as well as whose daughter you are, I shall wait patiently to learn.

Enough for me you are not the sister of James Device--enough you are not the grandchild of Mother Demdike." "You know all I know, in knowing thus much," replied Alizon, timidly.
"And secrecy has been enjoined by Mistress Nutter, in order that the rest may be found out.

But oh! should the hopes I have--perhaps too hastily--indulged, prove fallacious--" "They cannot be fallacious, Alizon," interrupted Richard, eagerly.

"On that score rest easy.

Your connexion with that wretched family is for ever broken.