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I will pray for thee most fervently; and thou wilt be supported.

I have been at times, since my condemnation, most wonderfully composed and resigned, as if I floated on a boundless ocean, beneath His eye who says, "Be calm, be still; it is my doing" But, oh! returning surges soon swell on every side, tossing, and raging, and yawning tremendously, like gulfs of perdition, so that my senses are utterly confounded. My soul has much need of thy ghostly comfort.

Comfort her, good Rutherford! I forgive her all that she has done against my poor child, and may God forgive her!

And will nothing, dear Madam, remove from your mind that miserable notion, that I have practised witchcraft against the health and life of your child? Can you believe this and pity me? No, no! were I the fiend-possessed wretch you suppose me to be, a natural antipathy would rise in your breast at the sight of me, making all touch of sympathy impossible. I am innocent of this, and of all great crime; and you will know it, when I am laid in a