For one, I do not fear excess of zeal. Seven times more hot before its put- What do we gain by parleying with

You now have entered I cannot see her face.

The realm of ghosts and phantoms,

the vast realm

TITUBA.

HATHORNE.

It is. The spectre is invisible
Unto our grosser senses, but she sees
it.

MARY.

Look! look! there is another clad in

gray!

She holds a spindle in her hand, and threatens

To stab me with it! It is Goodwife

Corey !

TITUBA (picking up a bit of gray cloth from the floor).

And here, too, is a bit of her gray dress,

That the sword cut away.

MATHER.

Beholding this,

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It were indeed by far more credulous
To be incredulous than to believe.
None but a Sadducee, who doubts of
all

Keep her away! Now she is coming Pertaining to the spiritual world,

at me!

Could doubt such manifest and damning proofs !

You wrenched it from the hand of My orchard groans with russets and

Good wife Corey

When she rushed at you.

HATHORNE.

Mark that, reverend sir!

MATHER.

It is most marvellous, most inexplicable 1

The cattle are bewitched. When will that be?

They are broken loose and making for