Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 15: what you’re looking at

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en eee -— aad Ter Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 9 were sung ;—of the true causes of all which I was of course in ignorance, though I knew that it made life pass more merrily at the Hall than it was wont to do. Especially do I recollect my uncle Edgar’s anger at these many meetings, to the know- ledge of which I was brought in the following fashion. He and my father, Allan Roanoke, had lived together at Roanoke Hall happily enough till then, and my cousin May, his only child, was my chief playmate. She was ’ but six years of age, motherless as I was my-. self, but to my eyes she was the sweetest and most peerless queen that ever brushed the earth with fairy footstep ; and of a truth she availed herself not a little of my devoted sub- mission. *Tis wonderful to see how complete a little woman isa young maid; for even as those who have travelled in our colonies of America report that the young ofa turtle, named from its habit of snapping, do of their own accord begin to snap as soon as released from the egg, so does a maiden, before even she begins to walk, coquette, make eyes, find joy in creating divisions and jealousies, and (@) comichbooks.com