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The Lancashire Witches

CHAPTER VIII
20/31

Let us think of other things--of our newly discovered relationship.

Henceforth, to me you are Millicent Nutter; though to others you must still be Alizon Device.

My sweet Millicent," she cried, embracing her again and again.

"Ah, little--little did I think to see you more!" Alizon's fears were speedily chased away.
"Forgive me, dear mother," she cried, "if I have failed to express the full delight I experience in my restitution to you.

The shock of your sad tale at first deadened my joy, while the suddenness of the information respecting myself so overwhelmed me, that like one chancing upon a hidden treasure, and gazing at it confounded, I was unable to credit my own good fortune.


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