Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 45: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 39 in vain, to find some tenant to take the Chace ~ for a while, and was at length fain to shut up the greater part of it, and leave it under the care of old Martha, the afore-mentioned nurse, who had for many long years been my grandmother’s faithful and trusted attendant . and companion. A fellow-traveller, or rather, to speak truly, an escort, had been found for me as far as the city of Winchester, after which I was to make my way as best I could to Stephen Ashland’s place. So it was that, having bade a sad adieu to my cousin May, who wept bitterly at our parting, and vowed that she should ever love me fondly, and would never know happiness until I was home again, having received some brief and bitter warnings from my uncle “Edgar, and having paid a final visit of fare- well to the grave of her whose loving-kind- ness I had never rightly felt until I lost it, I turned my back upon the home of my fore- fathers, and set out into the unknown sea of the future to struggle as I might with its un- ruly billows, but ill equipped and provisioned for the voyage. comichbooks.com