Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 155: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 14g which I had taken up my lodgings, but just as I turned the corner of the street in which it stood the darkness seemed to burst into countless sparkles of blinding light, and then sense and sight alike fled from me. The blow which struck me down was, for- tunately for me,but ill-directed in the dark- ness, or it must have slain me. Asit was, though, as I heard afterwards, I lay uncon- scious for three I days, I escaped with my life. My first hours of returning sensibility were distracted by vague, fleeting visions, which annoyed while they disturbed me. At one time May bent over me with a loving smile ; at another my uncle Edgar, scowling, swore that a traitor’s child should be no son of his; anon my grandmother, sad and pale, beck- oned me to rise and follow her, whither I knew not; and amid all these hovered a gen- tle visage, which was strangely familiar, though I could not remember where I had seen it. At last this one alone remained out of the dizzy swarm, and I knew that all the rest had been phantoms of my unsettled brain. He was an old priest, I learned in time, who, re- — comichbooks.com