Roanoke of Roanoke Hall: A Romance — page 75: what you’re looking at

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Roanoke of Roanoke Hall. 69 these two there was no sound nor sign of in- dwellers. I was left free to wander where I would about the gloomy, damp-smelling house or silent courtyard; but this, after I had once thoroughly overhauled all the twi- light rooms and passages, was weary work, ~ and but poor exercise for a growing lad ac- customed to all the unfettered freedom of a countryside. For outer air I was confined either to the roof, or to the platform sur- rounding the house, to which access was gained through the small postern on the south side close by the kitchen, and from which I was frequently warned not to stir under terror of instant and irrevocable de- struction. On the tenth night of my sojourn in this dreary and unsociable household, I was sit- ting with Meg, as I had come to call her, when Jamie entered the kitchen, and draw- ing her aside held a long whispered con- verse in her ear, and then departed as si- lently as he had come. “Gang yer ways, Ralph, gang yer ways, and pit on yer best claes,” she said to me, as soon a8 he had gone. ‘‘Gin ye’re wantin’ comichbooks.com