"What did you mean by that,—the Devil could not stand before you?
"(She denied it. Three or four sober witnesses confirmed it.)
"What can I do? Many rise up against me.
"Why, confess.—So I would, if I were guilty.
"Here are sober persons. What do you say to them? You are a gospel woman; will you lie?
"(Abigail cried out, 'Next sabbath is sacrament-day; but she shall not come there.')
"I do not care.
"You charge these children with distraction: it is a note of distraction when persons vary in a minute; but these fix upon you. This is not the manner of distraction.—When all are against me, what can I help it?
"Now tell me the truth, will you? Why did you say that the magistrates' and ministers' eyes were blinded, you would open them?
"(She laughed, and denied it.)