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When Perez and the men who with him were in the act of advancing on the / jail, were so suddenly recalled by the cry that the people were stoning / the judges, Prudence had been left quite alone, sitting on Perez' horse / in the middle of the street. She had no clear idea what all this crowd / and commotion in the village was about, nor even what the Stockbridge / men had come down for in such martial array. She only knew that Mrs. / Hamlin's son, the captain with the sword, had said he would bring her / to her father, and now that he had run off taking all the other men with / him, she knew not what to do or which way to turn. To her, thus perched / up on the big horse, confused and scared by the tumult, approached / a tall, sallow, gaunt old woman, in a huge green sunbonnet, and a / butternut gown of coarsest homespun. Her features were strongly marked, / but their expression was not unkindly, though just now troubled and / anxious.
"I guess I've seen yew tew meetin," she said to Prudence. "Ain't you / Fennell's gal?"