Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 43: what you’re looking at

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_ Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 37 Now there had before been question of some plate and moneys that had been missing after the rebellion, to some of which my uncle laid claim, and he did often roundly declare that my grandmother knew more of the matter than she was pleased to tell, which she in nowise regarded, neither denying nor affirming the same. When, therefore, she pressed him close for a more favorable re- sponse to her petition, he said very furiously that she might herself make provision for me out of the treasure she had concealed from him. - §* Beware!” she cried, rising, being greatly angered. ‘Beware, proud and ungrateful man! Urge me not too far, for I have that that will lay your high head lower than the dust.” Whereat he burst into a fit of loud and crucl laughter, and went out from the room, and I with him to entreat him to a peace, to which persuasions he would lend no ear. On my return I beheld my grandmother standing in the midst of the chamber, her face strangely drawn aside and convulsed, and she straightway afterwards fell to the ( 1OOY | © comichbooks.com