Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 65: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 59 CHAPTER IV. HOW I HEARD A SWEET SINGER; AND HOW I MET STEPHEN ASHLAND. THANKS to my youth and my excellent bodily health I awoke next morning in an unknown, sun-flooded room, no whit the worse for the fatigue, exposure, and fright of the night before. I leaped first of all to the window, but could see nothing save the narrow courtyard, and the great gateway through which I had made my entrance, and which was now closely barred and chained as before, as indeed I found afterwards it al- ways was, comers and goers making use of a small postern in the south or seaward face of the building, and of another secret entrance, which I found to my cost, and shall speak of hereafter. While I was putting on my garments, which I discovered had been carefully dried by the same kind hands that had laid me to bed, I was greatly delighted by the strains of comichbooks.com