Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 195: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 189 rested, and standing thus I noticed that the ayes of the portrait appeared to meet mine, an effect which was obtwinable in no other position, and it required little ingenuity to discern that this was not a mere chance, but that the extraordinary inscription, ‘‘Marke well ye Booke on which I looke,” referred not to the painted volume on the wall, but to the actual one on the shelf. Stimulated by this to further mental exer- tion I turned once more to an examination of the book, but still without avail, and I was - about to abandon the quest in despair when the black figure again obscured the light, and the hand pointed first to the book and then to the fire. As, overcome by astonishment, I did not move, the action was thrice repeated. “Burn it?” I exclaimed, forgetting that I was unable to make myself audible to the spirit, or at all events to elicit a comprehensi- _, ble reply. Again, with an air of impatient authority, was the gesture repeated ; in unwilling obe- dience I placed the book upon the embers, and the figure immediately moved away into invisibility. nati Ks comichbooks.com