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Battersea was supposed to be a Christian; but the barbaric fluid in his veins inclined him to the terrible grotesqueness of African witchcraft, and Dido and her words stirred some dim instinct in his mind. The negress saw that accident had placed in her way a helpless creature who might be of use in her necromantic business; therefore, by hypnotizing him once or twice, she contrived to keep him within her power. All of which fantasy would have been denied by the average British newspaper reader, who can not imagine such things taking place in what he calls euphoniously a Christian land. But this happened, for all his denial. "It must be hard on her," acquiesced Patricia. "Why didn't she get something else to do?" "But why should Dido act so under Etwald?".
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CHAPTER XVI. THE EVIDENCE OF JAGGARD. "That's because we've each of us got something to do," declared Miss Jinny emphatically. "If we were idling around, musing on ourselves from morning till night like some poor creatures do, we'd get prickly mighty soon. People were made to work, and it's flying in the face of Providence to try to get away from it. We all got our share in the curse of Adam, and the sooner we realize it, the better for us." "Did he know that it was Alymer's corpse?" interrupted Jen, sharply. Judith's dramatic sense asserted itself, and she frowned at Patricia's frivolous interruption of the portentous silence..
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