Page 285 - Adventures in shadow-land

I will soon come back again;11 and the Nymph
was gone.

Some time after the news had come to Salem of

the total loss of the brig Sea-nymph, Lucy Pea­
body was walking alone along the sands. She felt

weary, and sat down under the shadow of a rock,
to rest. The sun was just setting, the west was

suffused with a golden glow, the water lay, hardly
rippling to a low whispering wind, a sea of fire

and glass. Lucy leaned her head against the
rock, and sitting there, she dreamed a dream.

Along the sands toward her camc bid Goody
Cobb, whom everybody suspected of witchcraft.

She appeared so suddenly that Lucy in her dream
thought she had come out of the sea.
u Ho j ho !’J said Goody Cobb, with a cracked

laugh; “ so here is Madam Peabody’s ladydaugh-
ter come out to cry over her disappointment all by

herself? The man was a fool, sure enough, but I
wouldn’t mind. Just let me write your name

down in a little book I keep, and you shall see
our fine young madam dwine away like snow in

spring-time, and then we shall see— ”