Crucible
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- Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven monthsince she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
- I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
- No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion.
- now she would justify herself:John. I am only—
- Now, Martha Corey, there is abundant evidence in our hands to show that you have given yourself to the reading of fortunes. Do you deny it?
- How do you know, then, that you are not a witch?
- Why do you hurt these children?
- l do not hurt them. I scorn it!
- I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.
- If I were, I would know it.
- He looks at her incredulously:When were he hanged?
- Then how does he die?
- “More weight.”
- Press?
- Aye. It were a fearsome man, Giles Corey.
- Giles is dead.
- quietly, factuallyHe were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the chargethey’d hang him surely, and auction out his property. So he stand mute, and died Christian under the law.
- Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. With a tender smile for the old man: They say he give them but two words. “More weight,” he says. And died.
- And so his sons will have his farm.It is the law, for he could not be condemned a wizard without he answer the indictment, aye or nay.
- They press him, John.
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