Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 27 CHAPTER II. HOW ROANOKE WAS ATTACKED; AND HOW IT WAS DEFENDED. TuHatT night I could not sleep. There was some unwonted stir and murmur through the house ; the brush of hastened footfalls in the passages, the closing and reopening of doors ; and more than once I caught the slight clash of metal, and my grandmother’s voice in hushed command. But when I inquired the meaning of this from her the following morn she bade me be silent, and when I asked wherefore we were served on plain porcelain instead of the silver plate she told me to ask no questions, and to say no more on such a matter to any man. Of all the horrors and cruelties which fol- lowed in the train of the thrice infamous Jeffreys through his justly execrated ‘‘ Bloody Circuit” I was kept at the time in merciful ignorance 3 but I was one day dressed in comichbooks.com