... been a man whose sympathiesnaturally were with sea-captains, military officers, and other men -of- the-world; and, moreover, if he had not a wife, herself the daughter of a sea-captain, who was an ... andgallant bearing were something entirely different.And so Abigail Williams, and Mary Walcot, and Mercy Lewis, and Leah Herrick, and Sarah Churchill, andElizabeth Hubbard all had the same tale ... over; and all the scandal of theneighborhood, and even of Boston and other towns, gathered and discussed. Thus in the examination of Captain Alden in addition to the material charges of witchcraft...