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___ “I thought, sir, to put some questions as to the Christian character of this house, if you’ll permit me.
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___ “My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will not die for me!”
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___ “I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”
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___ “I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people—and this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied, questioned, like a—“
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___ “Abigail, I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character.”
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___ “That bloody mongrel Walcott charge her: y’see, he buy a pig of my wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after.”
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___ “So many times, Mr. Proctor, she come to this very door, beggin’ bread and a cup of cider—and mark this: whenever I turned her away empty, she mumbled.”
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___ “I have given you my soul! Leave me my name!”
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___ “Why, it is simple. I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should believe themselves. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!”
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___ “I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement. Them that will not confess will hang. Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now.”
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___ “Oh, it be not Hell in Barbados. Devil, him be pleasureman in Barbados, him be singin’ and dancin’ in Barbados. It’s you folks—you riles him up round here; it be too cold ‘round here for that Old Boy.”
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___ “If the girl’s a saint now. I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone—I have no proof for it.”
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___ “I will not give you no name. I mentioned my wife’s name once and I’ll burn in hell long enough for that. I stand mute.”
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___ Why--! The girl is murder! She must be ripped out of the world!”
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___ “I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it comes on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it.”
