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He doesn’t love Elizabeth! He loves me.
How can he love a woman who is blacking my name in the village! She is telling lies about me, she is a cold, snivelling woman, and he bends to her.
I know John Proctor better than anyone is this town, better than Elizabeth’s every will.
I am filled with Angry, sorrow and frustration.
This is all Parris faults if he hadn’t discovered us in the woods I would be able to dispose of Elizabeth for good, John could have been mine. I put myself at risk because of my love for him, I drank chicken blood and sang a charm that will kill Elizabeth Proctor! I drank a charm to kill goody Proctor.
The lies that I tell are the protect myself from the hypocrites that walk this town. My secret will stay a secret those girls will not reveal the truth about us practicing witchcraft in the woods. They must tell Parris all we did was dance, and Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either one of them breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some
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I envy Elizabeth and Johns marriage; she has everything that I have ever wanted which is to be loved. I am unnoticed, unwanted and most of all unloved. I didn’t know what love was until I met him, he is sporting to think that he doesn’t love me, he sweats like a stallion whenever I’m near, I'll wait for him every night as he keeps me awake for dreaming he is the one who put knowledge in my heart. All I want is to be goody Abigail. I want to take care of him, I want to love him and I want to make John happy.
Elizabeth is no goodly woman! It was she who sent me out, it was she who gave my name a bad reputation. The whole world is full of hypocrites It will need God Himself to cleanse this town properly. If I live, if I am not murdered, I will surely cry out others until the last hypocrite is

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