Put herself into the power of this greedy and unscrupulous old beldame?

The maniac proved to be a son of the old beldame.

But no single syllable would the old beldame now utter against her ancient mistress.

Phillipa, how do you stand with this old beldame?

Yet "Dodd" worked the genius of this respectable old beldame to the very verge of bankruptcy.

Upon that, the noise and the commotion brought out the mistress of the house-anold beldame of mean appearance.

Taric listened to the old beldame with grave attention; and, when she had concluded, he laid bare his shoulder, and lo!

Sometimes he would give a deep groan, and then the old beldame would turn angrily and threaten to strike him with her wooden spoon.

The old beldame gave our men a hard job, for she tried to make off to the forest, and called aloud: "Hind-Hind!"

"Had not that old beldame resisted us we should have caught them."

"A sour old beldame with a face of curds welcomed us, thank you," he said.

"There, you lying old beldame!"