Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 35 estate was courting her nursemaid. There was a convenient stile between the two do- mains where they managed to encounter nearly every day, and as, when I was present to play with her charge, the girl was left more free to enjoy the attentions of her swain, I met with no opposition from her. For three sweet years this went on, and every year I grew more enamoured of the lovely May. She was indeed a perfect vision of childish beauty. Her curling red-brown hair, her large brown eyes, rosy cheeks, and, soft red lips made up a sight that few could fail to gaze upon with pleasure. That my memory does not deceive me, and that my fancy does not add charms that were not * there, I can show, for, in addition to the strength of my recollection, I have before me as I write a little picture of her done in oils which I extracted by my persuasions from a painter who was fetched down from London to do the portrait of my grandmother, to which I shall find occasion to refer so fre- quently later on in my history. It was in the year of Our Lord sixteen hundred and eighty-eight that the smooth comichbooks.com