Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 150: what you’re looking at

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144 Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. CHAPTER X. HOW I SOJOURNED IN THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE ; AND HOW I RETURNED TO ROA- NOKE. I uAvE before declared my resolve to ban- ish everything from my narrative that does not bear directly or indirectly upon the his- tory of Roanoke Hall and John o’ Compton. In the furtherance of this determination I shall pass briefly over the following four years, during which I heard nothing of the one, and saw nothing of the other. , Having no other resource I closed with Captain Delavigne’s offer to remain on board his ship, and as I was only rated as his ser- vant, and not expected to take part in any operations, offensive or defensive, I managed to convince my conscience that only in ap- pearance was I bearing arms against my . ° native country. I was present with Admiral Tourville’s i} ( = comichbooks.com