Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 220: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

214 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. **Come, come, John 0’ Compton,” replied the other; ‘‘cease this fooling. Your time has come, my man, late as it is, and there is more for you to answer than you will care to meet.” *‘ And if I do not choose to meet it, what then ?”’ *« Why then we shall be constrained to force you, and so much the worse for you.” «« Brave words, brave words, my springald,” laughed the man of the woods. ‘‘Come, Alice. Come my pretty pet, my poppet, my dainty dove, come and see these bragging guests of thine. Did’st thou invite them, eh? Did’st thou? It would be like thee.” He dragged her, pale and trembling, to the window. She was sadly aged and altered, but that ghastly look of speechless terror was only stamped more deeply and darkly on her face. She gazed round with vague, unseeing eyes, until her glance rested upon me, as I sat upon horseback well raised above the sur- rounding crowd on foot. She sprang forward with a cry, leaned from the window, and, stretching out her arms towards me, cried pit- ( 1OOY | © comichbooks.com