A Daughter of Witches

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Excerpt from A Daughter of Witches: A Romance After he had vanished round the corner of the house towards the ill-chosen door, Miss Tribbey waited impatiently for the knock, calculating whether she could safely leave her fruit on the fire whilst she answered it. The knock did not come. Muffled by the heavy door, its feeble echo was absorbed by the big rooms between the front door and the kitchen. "Well!" said Temperance, "has he gone to Heaven all alive, like fish goes to market, or is he got a stroke?" The cat arched its back against Miss Tribbey's skirts and so shirked the reply which clearly devolved upon it, there being no other living creature visible in the big kitchen. "It's as bad as consumpting to have a man hanging over a body's head like this, " continued Temperance. "My palpitations is coming on! If I'm took with them and that fruit on the fire, along of a man not knowing enough to knock!" The fruit in the big copper kettle began to rise insidiously towards the brim. "I'll just go and take a speck at him through the shutters, " said-she. She crossed the kitchen, but ere she left it, long housewifely habit made her "give a look to the stove." The burnished copper kettle was domed by a great crimson bubble, raised sphere-like by the steam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.