Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 210: what you’re looking at

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204 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. CHAPTER XIV. HOW THE WEIRD WAS DREE’D AND THE DOOM _ FULFILLED. I was, a8 may be conceived, most anxious that my union with the lovely May should take place as soon as possible, but my unclé, with a wisdom that I could not deny, main- tained that it would be wiser to make certain first that John o’ Compton’s fraudulent claim upon Roanoke had been finally withdrawn. In accordance with this decision, having bade May a fond adien, I started three days after- wards for Connington Grange, determined to wreak full vengeance upon the man of the woods for his manifold villainies. With what different sensations I traversed the road to those which I had entertained when before, a mere boy, orphaned and pen- niless, I had ridden along it, leaving all I loved in the world behind me, to seek shelter with strangers who might be expected to be indifferent, and who proved far worse ! comichbooks.com «