Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Ee ree te Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 31 Chace with all appertaining thereto, there was not one who did not come to offer her tokens of sympathy and regard. All this hardly earned respect she now of her own free will did cast away to save the estates for my uncle Edgar—nay, not all, for on the Sunday after her victory, when, on leaving the church at the end of divine ser- vice, all turned away, giving her cold looks and scanty courtesy, one Sir Percy Rushton, a true and honest gentleman, did press for- ward before all the haughty sneering dames, and taking my grandmother by the hand, cried in a loud voice that all might hear : “¢ Madam, these puritanical and unchristian ladies may say what they like and think what they please ; but I protest that I respect and admire you more for your courage in adver- sity than for all your virtues in prosperity ; and if any gentleman cares to gainsay that you are a braveand generous lady I may per- haps find a means to convince him of his error.” , Whereat he fingered his sword-hilt, look- ing round him very fiercely, and my grand- comichbooks.com