Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 44: what you’re looking at

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38 Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. ground, and in a short space of time died, making great and terrible efforts to speak. Now indeed was I in a pitiful case: my grandmother, my sole friend and protector, dead ; my uncle estranged ; with little or no livelihood, and no means to make one for myself. My grandmother, it is true, had by her last will and testament left to me her es- tate of Roanoke Chace, ‘‘ together with every- thing thereupon either above or beneath the ground;” but I was but eleven years of age at the time, having neither the years nor the experience to manage even so small a prop- erty, and no means to support myself in idle- ness, for my grandmother’s revenue had been a charge upon the estate which ceased at her death, reverting to my uncle. In these circumstances I was glad enough to follow the instructions left in my grand- mother’s letter of advice, and betake myself to the protection of her father, Stephen Ash- land, who was still living, though of a great age, ata house of his in the south of Eng- land. By the counsel of a lawyer who came to settle my grandmother’s affairs, I tried, but => _ _ comicbooks.com ; - .