I'm not so cruel as you think.

I wouldn't take the wide world an' shed blood wid my own hands.

I tried it once on Lamh Laudher More, an' when I thought I killed him hell came into me.

No; that I may go _below_ if I would!" "But you would get others to do it, if you could," said Rody.
"I need get nobody to do it for me," said the crone.

"I could wither any man, woman, or child, off o' the earth, wid one charm, if I wished." "Why don't you wither young Lamh Laudher then ?" said Rody.
"If they fight to-morrow," replied Nell; "mind I say if they do--an' I now tell you they won't--but I say if they do--you'll see he'll go home in the coffin that's made for him--an' I know how that'll happen.