Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 13: what you’re looking at

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ROANOKE OF ROANOKE HALL. CHAPTER I. HOW A STRANGE MAN CAME TO ROANOKE HALL; AND HOW BAD NEWS FOLLOWED. Ir isa strange thing for a man who from the very threshold of the silent tomb can look back on more than eighty years, to mark what mighty trivial details thrust up their heads, like rocks in a mountain stream, above the stormy current of past misfortunes. I have lived under six monarchs, not count- ing as one our present gracious King, George, the third of that name, who has this year been called to the throne of his fathers ; yet can I well remember how, startled in the beginning by the flutter of the brown bird’s wings, I found my first nest wrapped close in moss and leaves, and gazed with pleasant ; q comichbooks.com