I liked him very much." "Oh, well, I have not seen him yet.

But they say his father was a son of Belial, and fought under the tyrant at Naseby." "But that is all over and his widowed mother is one of us." "Hang him, what does it matter!" Then, changing his tone, and looking at her a little suspiciously.

"Did Leah Herrick say anything to you against me the other night at the husking ?" "I do not allow people to talk to me against my friends," replied she earnestly.
"She was talking to you a long time I saw." "Yes." "It must have been an interesting subject." "It was rather an unpleasant one to me." "Ah!" "She wanted me to join the 'circle' which they have just started at the minister's house.

She says that old Tituba has promised to show them how the Indians of Barbados conjure and powwow, and that it will be great sport for the winter nights." "What did you say to it ?" "I told her I would have nothing to do with such things; that I had no liking for them, and that I thought it was wrong to tamper with such matters." "That was all she said to you ?" and the young man seemed to breathe more freely.
The girl was sharp-witted--what girl is not so in all affairs of the heart ?--and it was now her turn.

"Leah is very handsome," she said.
"Yes--everybody says so," he replied coolly, as if it were a fact of very little importance to him, and a matter which he had thought very little about.
Dulcibel, was not one to aim all around the remark; she came at once, simply and directly to the point.
"Did you ever pay her any attentions ?" "Oh, no, not to speak of.