Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 39: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 33- Alice Roanoke’s first-born had been a daughter, while at about the same time a son, the token of Hester’s shame, had been born to her. Gerald Roanoke, owing to his wife's great illness, feared for an heir, and. persuaded Hester to consent to the exchang- ing of the children, which was accordingly done, no one save the nurse knowing aught of the deed. The daughter had been given into the care of a woman in the country, who had some time after reported its death, and Allan had been brought up at his father’s sou and heir. This plea having been presented in the proper quarter, and having been satisfactorily confirmed by documentary and other evi- dence, such as a declaration of the facts signed by Gerald Roanoke himself, and the sworn testimony of the nurse who attended the lady, was allowed, and his Majesty was graciously pleased to relinquish his claim to the estates, only consoling himself by exact- ing a heavy fine, for no justifiable reason save that the Crown had been put to great ex- pense in the matter. So it was that I was disinherited because ( © comichbooks.com