Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 120: what you’re looking at

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114 Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. face, and a soft, dreamy, far-away look dawned in her eyes. , **So, lass, so,” said John o’ Compton, breaking silence at length. ‘That is well. Now tell these good folks whether thou art willing to marry with me or no.” “*Yes—I am willing,” she said, with a hol- low, lingering accent. Such, I thought, would be the voice of a corpse if, by some devilish enchantment, it could be raised, and gifted with speech. “‘Say it again in French, then,” continued the man of the woods.” ‘Our friend here ; has no English.” i. “‘Oui—je le veux,” she said, in the same faltering tone, as if some other one were speaking with her tongue. Satisfied, or affecting to be so, with this assurance, the priest hastily made all the necessary arrangements, and in a few minutes the curious ceremony began. During the- course of this, Alice echoed, rather than spoke, all the proper responses, and when it was concluded, and John o’ Compton, who, I observed, had never once released her hand, stooped down and kissed her, she made comichbooks.com