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Several girls of Salem were seen dancing in the woods--an action forbidden by the strict laws of Puritanism. The following day, Betty Parris is in a stupor, as though she is bewitched. Her father is paranoid about what evil might have befallen her, and some of the girls come to visit. When they are alone with Betty, the girls try to pull her out of the stupor, especially Abigail Williams, who violently threatens them all if they reveal anything that actually happened in the woods.
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Abigail: How is Ruth sick?
Mercy: It’s weirdish, I know not--she seems to walk like a dead one since last night.
Abigail: Betty? (Betty doesn’t move. She shakes her.) Now stop this! Betty! Sit up now!
Mercy: Have tried beatin’ her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her …
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Mary: What’s got her? Abby, she’s going to die! It’s a sin to conjure and we …
Abigail: I say shut it, Mary Warren!
Arthur Miller, The Crucible. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 1982, pp.11-12.
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