What
have you to do with Lucy Ashton? why should your steps move in the same
footpath with hers? why should your voice sound in the same chord and
time with those of Sir William Ashton's daughter? Young man, he who aims
at revenge by dishonourable means----"
"Be silent, woman!" said Ravenswood, sternly; "it is the devil that
prompts your voice? Know that this young lady has not on earth a friend
who would venture farther to save her from injury or from insult."
"And is it even so?" said the old woman, in an altered but melancholy
tone, "then God help you both!"
"Amen! Alice," said Lucy, who had not comprehended the import of what
the blind woman had hinted, "and send you your senses, Alice, and your
good humour. If you hold this mysterious language, instead of welcoming
your friends, they will think of you as other people do."
"And how do other people think?" said Ravenswood, for he also began to
believe the old woman spoke with incoherence.
"They think," said Henry Ashton, who came up at that moment, and
whispered into Ravenswood's ear, "that she is a witch, that should have
been burned with them that suffered at Haddington.
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