Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 17: what you’re looking at

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a a Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. II and he, chancing to overhear the pretty May name me her husband, did snatch her rough- ly from me, bidding me go, with a buffet, and saying harshly that the child of a traitor should be no son of his. Whereat I went my way very much astounded, and May fell to weeping and would not be comforted. Not long afterwards, in the first bright days of June, as I was roaming alone, near the setting of the sun, upon the moor which stretched away to the northward behind the Hall, I was aware of a man riding towards me at a great pace, he and his horse showing black as coal against the flaring blood-red clouds that trailed along the western sky. I know not what strange foreboding of the future raised in my breast a great and deadly. terror at his approach, insomuch that I would have fled had not my legs failed me, and he at the same time espying me, called to me with a great shout, to come to him; the which, seeing no escape, I most unwillingly began to do. He was an exceeding tall man, of great bodily strength, with overbroad shoulders, and thick, knotted arms, so marvellously comichbooks.com