As the maiden left us, the minister, looking after said, "There is a deal of poison under the fair outside of yonder vessel, which I fear is fitted for destruction." "Peggy Brewster is indeed under a delusion," answered Robert Pike, "but I know no harm of her.

She is kind to all, even to them who evil entreat her." "Robert, Robert!" cried the minister, "I fear me you will follow your honored father, who has made himself of ill repute, by favoring these people."-- "The Quaker hath bewitched him with her bright eyes, perhaps," quoth Sir Thomas.

"I would she had laid a spell on an uncivil tongue I wot of," answered Robert, angrily.

Hereupon, Mr.Sewall proposed that we should return, and in making ready and getting to the boat, the matter was dropped.
NEWBURY, June 1, 1678.
To-day Sir Thomas took his leave of us, being about to go back to Boston.

Cousin Rebecca is, I can see, much taken with his outside bravery and courtliness, yet she hath confessed to me that her sober judgment doth greatly incline her towards her old friend and neighbor, Robert Pike.