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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 18: Oldtown folks, 1869. (search)
pled and dissipated man in the neighborhood, by the name of Brown, of whom I had stood in terror for years. These devils I looked on, full of eagerness, the devils struggled to force Brown down with them, and Brown struggled with the energy of despBrown struggled with the energy of desperation to save himself from their grip, and it seemed that the human was likely to prove too strong for the infernal. In thhat seemed to understand him perfectly, and, whirling up to Brown, touched his hand. Brown resisted stoutly, and struck out Brown resisted stoutly, and struck out right and left at the cloud most furiously, but the usual effect was produced,the hand grew black, quivered, and seemed to be degrees, and then the head and shoulders. At this instant Brown, collecting all his energies for one desperate effort, spraturned by an immense crank. Three of the devils now seized Brown and put his feet to the rollers, while two others stood, onncholy, but kept all my troubles to myself, through fear of Brown. This happened before my father's sickness, and consequen