Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 124: what you’re looking at

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118 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. ‘ CHAPTER VIII. HOW I VENTURED ONCE TOO OFTEN; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. From the fact that the name of my sweet cousin May has not appeared in my pages since the hour I left Roanoke it might be inferred that with the ready fickleness of youth I had forgotten her, but this conclu- sion would be both unjust and erroneous. Often and often, by day and night, her radiant image rose before my mind’s eye. I wondered what she was doing, whether she was happy, if she ever thought of me, or if my existence had already passed from her recollection, or only lingered as a vague and fleeting memory. I have forborne from recording such reflections, as it is not my wish to pour forth such a flood of specula- tions, philosophisings, and inward commun- ings as our writers so often inflict upon us. It is of my adventures in connection with © , comicbooks.com -