Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 16: what you’re looking at

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10 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. revel in the invention of delightful torments for those that love her. So, indeed, did my cousin May plague me sorely; for, knowing how I loved her even then, she would be coy or kind, haughty or humble, disdainful or yielding, sad or merry, all in the brief passage of a summer morning. All of which I would not have writ down here against her, had she not in after-years made all the happiness of my life. When she was in her mood of pride she was a very empress, and I her most dutiful slave ; she would bid me begone or tarry, send me on errands for things she had no need. of, choose to do that which she knew I most of all disliked, and in fine lead me such a dance that none but the most obedient lover would have endured her caprices. But when she was kind, all these troubles were quickly forgotten, and she would graciously permit me in our sports to style her ‘my little wife.” On one such occasion we were walking on the terrace beneath the windows of the great hall, and my uncle was also moodily pacing up and down, as was his custom at times, comichbooks.com