Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 35: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 29 That my uncle Edgar had not only taken no part in the late rebellion, but had journeyed all the way to London to put himself at the King’s disposal, that my grandmother and I were guilty of no offence against his Majesty, were to be held of noaccount. Nothing that - had been ours was to be left to us; we were the kin of a rebel, and were not fit to live, and I, before even I knew that I had come into my inheritance, was to be cast out from it to beg my bread by the roadside, or to _btarve unheeded in a ditch: which would most assuredly have been effected had it not been for the defence of my grandmother. This defence, though a right grand and notable one, is no tale of battle und siege, of beleaguering army and famished gar- vison, of locked doors and barred win- dows, blows and wounds, shot and counter- shot. It was but the contest of one brave _ Woman against all the learned lawyers of the Crown—a woman who shrank not from fling- ing to the winds her honest name, her good fame, all that woman holds most dear in the cause of one who, as he hath oftentimes since comichbooks.com