Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 111: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hatt. 105 CHAPTER VII. HOW I WENT WHERE I SHOULD NOT HAVE GONE; AND HOW I SAW WHAT I SHOULD NOT HAVE SEEN. IN spite of the darkness I was not long in finding my way to the room which had been © the farthest point of my former exploration, and keeping one hand outstretched before me with that haunting sensation of some solid object which one constantly feels in even well-known obscurity, I moved on. Turning the corner of the mass of barrels which blocked the centre of the room I saw an ornamental grating through which pene- trated a dim owl-light, and going up to it my eyes fell upon a sight that filled me with wonder. The open-work formed part of the carved frieze which I had observed in my great-grandfather’s room on the occasion of my visit, and through it I could obtain an comichbooks.com