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Stand back, every one of you, and leave clear room round the body. It is the Lady Annabella. She has been strangled:—she has struggled fearfully; her features are swollen, and her eyes starting from her head; she has struggled fearfully.Stand back, I say; retire to your places, every one of you, or I'll deal with you as breakers of the peace.

Be not so angry with them, good Baillie: they must have some frightful sight to stare at, and they will be disappointed of that which they came for.

Disappointed, sheriff! You do not mean, I hope, to reprieve that foul witch at the other stake: is not one execution enough for them? It makes me sick to see such blood-thirsting in a Christian land.

Ay, you say true; that poor wretch had gone out of my head.

Wretch enough, good sooth! the blackest witch in Renfrewshire, Grizeld Bane excepted.