Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 228: what you’re looking at

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222 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. had ever visited, as it was thought wiser that I should be present in person to insure the complete abandonment of the abortive law proceedings. It was no cheap or easy matter to send communications to any distance, but my father-in-law succeeded in conveying to me almost every week some account of the res- toration of the Dower house, which had been resolved upon before our departure, and which he had undertaken to direct. It seemed to me that, in his eager search for the mysterious hiding-place of the treasure, he was doing full as much dragging down as setting up, but as we were quite content to linger among the gayeties of the metropo- lis I made no remonstrance, and he finally announced that the place was ready for our return, his investigations having in the end been altogether unrewarded. It was a happy day forme when I led- my beloved May through the now renovated apartments, and took her to see the por- trait, the original of which had exercised so ‘strange and happy an influence upon our lives. Comicbooks.conn , a