Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 71: what you’re looking at

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+ tommltetl Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 65 platform it roared, rising to within a few inches of its top, and then passed racing on and soon disappeared in the distance, so that as far as the eye could reach nothing was to be seen but the waves dancing and spark-: ing in the sunshine. It was - indeed for all the world like being on shipboard, with the clear green water flashing and dashing, the stinging salt wind piping, and driving across the deep blue sky.the mighty masses of strong white clouds. - Thus always did the tide rise, and I never wearied of watching for it to come, until, as then, the calls of hunger warned me that the body must be nourished otherwise than by the sight. Having got to the foot of the staircase, and having proved beforehand that there was no way downwards in that part of the house which I had explored, I resolved to try the only other that remained, and so set out through a passage which ran along the north side of the house, I shortly came to a heavy door which yielded to pressure, and admitted me toa large and, for a wonder, well-lighted room; for, in addition to the two windows comichbooks.com