Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 47: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Halt. 41 CHAPTER III. HOW I CAME TO CONNINGTON GRANGE, AND HOW I HEARD THE CLATTER 0” THE CAUSEY. Ir was already nearly noon when I parted from my travelling companion, and though I rode steadily forwards for the rest of the day, without halting anywhere upon the road, the sun was about to sink below the range of hills far away to the west of me before I pulled bridle in a village which I had been informed lay near my destination. I stopped at the door of an inn on the further side of the place, which stood on the very verge of a steep hill. Below me, stretch- ing far onwards until lost in the gathering haze, lay a broad plain intersected by number- less winding streams, all of which, together with the steaming mud-flats left bare by the retreated tide, burned crimson as blood in the fading light. I was about to dismount and enter the comichbooks.com