Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 34: what you’re looking at

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28 Roanoke af Roanoke Hall. mourning by my grandmother’s orders, on her return from a visit to the city of London, and I was told that my father’s head had fallen on the scaffold. How long afterwards it was, I know not, when a man came riding at headlong speed from the village to warn us that a party of Crown officers were arrived, and had but halted for refreshment on their way to he Hall, where we were then re-established, my uncle Edgar being by then come home again. Of what happened thereafter I must speak with the larger experience and fuller knowl- edge of later years, for I was too young to comprehend such matters when they befell. The King, not content with the fearful retri- bution taken upon all concerned, was re- solved to drive in the sword of vengeance to the very hilt, and had issued an order to sequestrate the estates which had been for- feited by my father’s treason. Everything he had died possessed of was to be seized for the King’s behoof; lands and houses, cattle, plate, and jewels were to be taken from us, and we were to be turned naked and penniless upon the cruel world. comichbooks.com