Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 190: what you’re looking at

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184 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. stand that you are the spirit of my dear grandmother ?” There was no reply, no sign of head or hand that my question had been heard ; but the arm waslowered. What was the meaning of this? For what great cause had my long dead relative returned to earth? I looked more closely at the picture, as the ghost made no further motion. It was that ohe which I have before incidentally referred to as having been made by a painter from London shortly after our final removal to Roanoke Chace, and was neither better nor worse than most of its kind. It represented my grandmother, plainly dressed in black, as I had always known her, holding in her down-stretched hands an open book. There was, however, one peculiarity about it which had often excited my curiosity. In the upper left-hand corner was painted in tarnished gilt letters the following strange verse : ‘Marke well ye Booke On which I looke. Faste Binde, Faste Finde.” I had made many wild guesses as to the comichbooks.com _