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unhurt, again to do the duty of a Christian pastor to my dear and friendly flock now convened. Let me pray by the bed of that poor suffering child, for her, for myself, and for all here present.

LADY DUNGARREN (to Annabella).

Let us put her in a different position before he begin: she must be tired of that; for see, she moves again uneasily.

[Lady Dungarren takes Annabella to the bottom of the Stage, and they both seem employed about the child, while Dungarren and Rutherford remain on the front.)

DUNGARREN.

It is a most extraordinary and appalling apparition you have seen. What do you think of it?

RUTHERFORD.

What can I think of it, but that the dead are sometimes permitted to revisit the earth, and that I verily have seen it.

DUNGARREN.

I would more readily believe this than give credit to the senseless power and malevolence of witchcraft, which you have always held in derision.

RUTHERFORD.

It is presumption to hold any thing in derision.