She writes, therefore, to assure me that
she is safe and well--that she hopes to see me before long--and that she
has something to tell me, when we meet, which will try my sisterly love
for her as nothing has tried it yet. The letter is not dated; but
the postmark is 'Allonby,' which I have found, on referring to the
Gazetteer, to be a little sea-side place in Cumberland. There is no hope
of my being able to write back, for Magdalen expressly says that she is
on the eve of departure from her present residence, and that she is not
at liberty to say where she is going to next, or to leave instructions
for forwarding any letters after her.
"In happier times I should have thought this letter very far from being
a satisfactory one, and I should have been seriously alarmed by that
allusion to a future confidence on her part which will try my love
for her as nothing has tried it yet. But after all the suspense I have
suffered, the happiness of seeing her handwriting again seems to fill
my heart and to keep all other feelings out of it. I don't send you her
letter, because I know you are coming to me soon, and I want to have the
pleasure of seeing you read it.
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