Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 19 freys, together with his mother, who gave him comfort and shelter in his peril, was there gayly apparelled, and spoke to me laughingly, asking whether I would not come along with him, and beat a drum for the good cause, which I in nowise comprehended. Presently arrived my grandmother in great haste and perturbation, and begged my fa- ther with tears and sobbing not to set out that day, arguing that the wind had torn a large bough from the old oak near the Dower House, known as Roanoke Chace, where she abode, a thing which hath always been con- sidered of evil omen to our house; but he would pay no heed to her. Now of my grandmother I must speak more at length in this place, for that she not only cared for me tenderly while she lived, but also after her decease interposed for good in a strange and notable way in my concerna, as shall hereafter be more fully made clear. She was a stately and grand dame of goodly and commanding presence, and seemed al- . Ways to my young eyes to be of an exceeding great age ; though indeed, as I learned after- wards, she was no more than eight-and-forty comichbooks.com