"Instead of my skellington he'll carry home her living carcass before long.

But though she's a lady in herself, and worthy of any such as he, it do seem to me that he ought to marry somebody more of the sort of Mrs.Charmond, and that Miss Grace should make the best of Winterborne." Marty returned no comment; and at that minute the girls, some of whom were from Great Hintock, were seen advancing to work the incantation, it being now about midnight.
"Directly we see anything we'll run home as fast as we can," said one, whose courage had begun to fail her.

To this the rest assented, not knowing that a dozen neighbors lurked in the bushes around.
"I wish we had not thought of trying this," said another, "but had contented ourselves with the hole-digging to-morrow at twelve, and hearing our husbands' trades.

It is too much like having dealings with the Evil One to try to raise their forms." However, they had gone too far to recede, and slowly began to march forward in a skirmishing line through the trees towards the deeper recesses of the wood.

As far as the listeners could gather, the particular form of black-art to be practised on this occasion was one connected with the sowing of hemp-seed, a handful of which was carried by each girl.