She at once sent for both Mrs. Mugford and Mrs. Fry to get at the truth of the story, and gave them such a scolding for their folly and their quarrelsomeness that they departed weeping hand in hand, in deep sympathy with each other as two thoroughly ill-used women.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue
In these words the historian himself furnishes cause for distrusting the justice of ascribing to her a crabbed temper and habitual quarrelsomeness.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
Crabbedness of temper and quarrelsomeness were not grounds on which any portion of the people would count her a saint.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam