Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 36: what you’re looking at

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30 Roanoke of Roanoke Hail. owned with heartfelt penitence, repaid her but ill. It must be made known for the clearer understanding of my story that my grand-’ mother was in reality of no kin to my uncle Edgar, being my grandfather Gerald Roa- noke’s second wife ; his first, the mother, as all supposed, of his two sons, having been a wealthy heiress of the neighborhood, Mistress Alice Clermont. She had unhappily died in giving birth to my uncle, and after a year of mourning, to the no little wonder and scandal of the place, Gerald Roanoke had married Hester Ashland, who had been his first wife’s waiting-woman. She was the daughter of a small farmer near by, a fair and winning dameel at the time of her espousal, with manners, as I have heard, above her ostensible situation. For some months after the event the gentry dwelling round about had held aloof because of her low birth,. but in time her gentle, modest ways and her true devotion to her husband’s children had won for her the re- pect of all; and when he died, leaving her in perpetuity the Dower House of Roanoke comicbooks.com