Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 226: what you’re looking at

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220 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. greedily down with indescribable slimy gurg- lings and sobbings. The river rushed in a wave over the site, then ebhed away, and nothing but a stretch of writhing, shivering quicksands, dotted with pools of water, remained where but a minute before Connington Grange had frowned upon the waste. In voiceless dread, carrying our dead and wounded, we made our way in all haste to the land, fearing at each step that the solid pavement beneath our feet would be engulfed into the depths.:' Arrived at last in safety, I bade adieu to my companions, and as I had . no further call to linger, set out for Roanoke Hall, to report there the marvellous end of John o’ Compton. ° comicbooks.comn |