Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE EARLY COLONISTS. 13 He bad spoken with warmth and enthusiasm, the tears springing to his eyes, and the young man grasped his band with energy, and replied ; “T will go, my father. I will be all.that you depict, sure that Hope will be mine, or will remain as she now is. Shall it not be so, Sir Richard? Shall I not some day, when more worthy of her, call her wife ?” “ John, men, who are men, prove their manhood by resisting inordinate desires. Such desires granted often come in tlie shape of a curse.” “ That they do,” responded Captain Bonyton with bitterness. “ Like the hankerings of God's people for flesh, the Almighty grants it to them, till they are filled with loathing and abhor- rence, even of that for which they had lusted.” Sir Richard Vines, obeying a sudden warm impulse of the heart, threw his arms around the unhappy youth and exclaimed : “My poor boy! Forget my little Hope, or let her be to you only as a sister.” CHAPTER II. THE FATAL OMEN. Ir is necessary that we should go back in the details of our story, in order to give our readers the antecedents of the characters which we have so unceremoniously brought upon the stage of action, and that we may show the locality of our history. . ‘The State of Maine, it must be remembered, was permanent> _ ly settled so early as 1616, and it is most probable in the spring of that year, by Sir Richard Vines, the friend and companion of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, of Raleigh Gilbert, and the unfortunate Sir Walter Raleigh, the half-brother of the latter. We say permanently, because there is no testimony of his having abandoned the colony he had thus founded, and there is abundant record of his movements, his enterprise aud his history, till it was finally incorporated into the Ply- mouth charter ; comicbooks.com