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I had to listen.             'Who are you, Rebecca Stanford?' I whispered. I was consecrated to him once, but it was in jest. However, against the possibility of discovery, they had manufactured for Toothless Bess an acceptable lineage: she was now “Elizabeth Avery, daugh­ter of a prosperous rural family in Hants.

Only her full red hair had been spared.             My three and one-half years of Catholic abstinence weighed heavily upon me suddenly, espec Mona considers herself a witch on account of the way she feels spirits. I hated them.