Magdalen read the letter thankfully, but her thoughts wandered from
it, and followed Kirke on his return to the City. What was the business
which had once already taken him there in the morning? And why had the
promise exchanged between them obliged him to go to the City again, for
the second time in one day?
Was it by any chance business relating to the sea? Were his employers
tempting him to go back to his ship?
CHAPTER IV.
THE first agitation of the meeting between the sisters was over; the
first vivid impressions, half pleasurable, half painful, had softened a
little, and Norah and Magdalen sat together hand in hand, each rapt in
the silent fullness of her own joy. Magdalen was the first to speak.
"You have something to tell me, Norah?"
"I have a thousand things to tell you, my love; and you have ten
thousand things to tell me.--Do you mean that second surprise which I
told you of in my letter?"
"Yes. I suppose it must concern me very nearly, or you would hardly have
thought of mentioning it in your first letter?"
"It does concern you very nearly. You have heard of George's house in
Essex? You must be familiar, at least, with the name of St.
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