OR THE WITCH OF NEW ENGLAND. [Mrs. Eliza Buckminster Lee] “There is in man a HIGHER than love of happiness : BOSTON : HILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. 山 1862, July 26. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, BY HILLIARD, GRAY & CO. in the clerk's office of the district court of Massachusetts. PREFACE. THE Scenes and characters of this little tale are wholly fictitious. It will be found that the tragic interest that belongs to the history of the year 1692 has been very much softened in the following pages. The object of the author has not been to write a tale of witchcraft, but to show how circumstances may unfold the inward strength of a timid woman, so that she may at last be willing to die rather than yield to the delusion that would have preserved her life. |