er,
our Stranger, say that he would return hither shortly, when he had set
his companion a short distance on his homeward way. But that is now
more than two hours agone, and as yet he hath not reappeared.'

'Well then, maids,' replied Mistress Fell briskly, 'let us not linger
here. It is high time we went back to the house to welcome our guest,
on his return.' So saying, she rose to her feet, and aiding 'young
Margrett' with one hand, she drew aside with the other the thick
screen of the branches. A ray of sunshine fell upon Margaret Fell,
standing there, in the velvety gloom of the old yew-trees, with her
six young daughters round her. Sunshine was in her heart too, as she
looked down fondly at them for a moment.

Then, lifting up her eyes, she recognised the unknown man she had seen
in her dream. In the full blaze of sunlight, coming straight up the
flagged path towards her was a Stranger, wearing a white hat. And thus
did Mistress Margaret Fell behold for the first time GEORGE FOX.

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X. 'BEWITCHED!'

_'When ye do judge of matters, or
when ye do judge of words, or when
ye do judge of persons, all these
are distinct things. A wise man
will not give both his ears to one
party but reserve one for the
other party, and will hear both,
and then judge.'--G. FOX._

_'And after I came to one Captain
Sands, which he and his wife if
they could have had the world and
truth they would have received it.
But they was hypocrites and he a
very light chaffy man, and the way
was too strait for him.'--G. FOX._

_'James the First was crazed
beyond his English subjects with
the witch mania of Scotland and
the Continent. No sooner had his
first parliament enacted new death
laws than the judges and the
magistrates, the constable and the
mob began to hunt up the oldest
and ugliest spinster who lived
with her geese on the common, or
tottered about the village street.
Many pleaded guilty, and described
the covenants they had formed with
black dogs and "goblins called