Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 28: what you’re looking at

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22 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. thinking pleasure, and then climbing to the roof of the gate-house, followed them with my eyes down into the valley and up the gen- tle slopes of the hill on the farther side, until the last spear-point vanished from my sight. They were a goodly company with their gay scarves, plumes, and armor, and a right merry one, singing songs, laughing, and jok- ing as they marched. Alas! though they were, as I know now, traitors to their lawful king, I cannot choose but pity them when I think how few returned again, and those sadly wearied and bedraggled, their bright weapons cast away, and their feathers and such-like gauds soaked with rain and stained with mud and mire. And now for a time unbroken peace settled down upon us. My uncle Edgar was away in London, and my cousin May and I were fetched down to the Dower House to stay with our grandmother until he or my father should come home. There we had a joyful time, not recking in our innocence the storm then growing to break over us, scampering about the halls and passages, shouting and (@) comichbooks.com