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Susan Fletcher. Corrag

Corrag. Susan Fletcher

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Author’s Note

Also by Susan Fletcher

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FOURTH ESTATE • London

Barbara Fairweather

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I sat – and then, in the gloom I saw her eyes. They were a very pale grey, and gave her a haunted expression, as the dying get. Her stare was brazen. She stared, and said she had expected me – which I doubt. If she knew I’d hoped to visit her, it can only be through prattle – for news is swift, in small towns. Even prisoners have ears.

She herself can prattle. The landlord was right about her tongue, for she talked more than I did. She rocked with her knees to her chest like her mind was half-gone – which it may be. She is a witch, and therefore deserves no sympathy, and I give her none, but I will say she has been poorly treated in her time – there were bruises on her arms, a reddened crust above one eye, and there’s a blood-stain on the side of her. The shackles have also broken her skin. I wonder if these wounds will kill her before the flames do. (I’ll also add this – that she is bruised and cut, and mangled, but I saw no bites on her. So rest yourself, Jane – do not worry yourself on lice.)

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