Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 40: what you’re looking at

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34 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. of my illegitimacy, my uncle Edgar took possession of the no little diminished fortune of which he had so long been deprived, and my grandmother was contemned by the most part of the neighborhood. It would have been thought that my uncle should show some gratitude for the great sacrifice she had made for his sake; but, stung perhaps at the terrible reduction made in his revenues by the King’s fine, he chose rather at that time to regard only the few years during which he had been kept out of his own, and threatened even at first to pro- ceed against her for fraud, a business which he afterwards thought the better of. So violent, however, was he in his strictures that she withdrew altogether to her own house of Roanoke Chace, and as my uncle would never look on me but with loathing, or speak to me save in bitterness, I was truly glad when, on her invitation, I was removed thither also, though I wept much at parting with my beloved cousin May. This separation did not prove as complete as my uncle would doubtless have wished, for it chanced that one of the men on our ( TOOY | a) comichbooks.com