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 "Do you think that these suffer against their wills, or not?"

"I do not think they suffer against their wills."

"But why did you never go to see these afflicted persons?"

"Because I was afraid I should have fits too."

Upon every motion of the prisoner's body the children had fits, upon which Hathorne said:

"Is it not an unaccountable thing that when you are examined these persons are afflicted?"

Seeing that he and all the others believed in her accusers, her only reply to this was:

"I have nobody to look to—but God."

As she said this she naturally attempted to raise her hands, upon which the afflicted ones were taken with great fits.

When order was again restored after all this tumult, the examiner continued:

"Do you believe these afflicted persons are bewitched?"

"I do think they are."

Goody Nurse was a clear-minded but un