 | George Eliot - 1860 - 384 pages
...picture, isn't it ? But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water's a witch—they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or no, and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned—and killed, you know—she's innocent, and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 476 pages
...a witch or no, and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned—and killed, you know—she's innocent, and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman. But \vhat good would it do her then, you know, when she was drowned ? Only, I suppose, she'd go to heaven,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...tell you what that means. It's a dreadful picture, isn't it 3 But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water's a witch — they've put her...would it do her then, you know, when she was drowned 1 Only, I suppose, she'd go to heaven, and God would make it up to her. And this dreadful blacksmith... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 pages
...It's a dreadful picture, isn't it ? But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water 'sa witch — they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or no, aud if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned — and killed, you know — she's innocent, and... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1892 - 312 pages
...picture, isn't it? But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water 'sa witch—-they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or no,...and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned 10* - and killed, you know —she's innocent, and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman. But... | |
 | Regina Barreca - 1994 - 204 pages
...woman in the water" is judged. As Maggie knowledgeably explains, to the chagrin of her father's friend, "they've put her in, to find out whether she's a witch...not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman." But, in a line whose irony becomes apparent only in retrospect, Maggie asks the simple but crucial question... | |
 | Jean Mills, Richard W. Mills - 2000 - 222 pages
...Defoe's History of the Devil with its account of a witch's trial by water: 'if she swims she's a witch, if she's drowned - and killed, you know - she's innocent,...and not a witch, but only a poor silly old woman' (bk 1, ch. 3, p. 13). Again, this reference serves several functions: it prefigures Maggie's actual... | |
 | Helen Edmundson - 2000 - 104 pages
...horrible picture, isn't it? But I can't help looking at it. That woman in the water is a witch - well, they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or not, and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned, and killed, you know, she's innocent and... | |
 | Alan Rauch - 2001 - 308 pages
...of the Devil This moral paradox and flawed logic of this "trial" are described by Maggie as follows: "If she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned — and killed, you know—she's innocent" (p. 16). The young Maggie supposes, with childlike belief, that, if the innocent... | |
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I'll tell you what that means. It's a dreadful picture, isn't it ? But I can't help looking at it. That old woman in the water's a witch ; they've put her in to find out whether she's a witch or no, and if she swims she's a witch, and if she's drowned... 